Lawrence Durrell quotes

There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature. (Lawrence Durrell)
Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened. View quote
Lawrence Durrell
The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know. View quote
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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness. View quote
Lawrence Durrell
A city becomes a world when one loves one of it's inhabitants. View quote
Lawrence Durrell
Music is only love looking for words. View quote
Lawrence Durrell
I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know. View quote
Lawrence Durrell
No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat. View quote
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Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist. View quote
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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked. View quote
Lawrence Durrell
A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying. (Lawrence Durrell)
Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie. View quote
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Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think. View quote
Lawrence Durrell
It's only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness. View quote
Lawrence Durrell
Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me and then show me the place where he was hanged. View quote
Lawrence Durrell
It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else. View quote
Lawrence Durrell
Science is the poetry of the intellect and poetry the science of the heart's affections. View quote
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Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us? View quote
Lawrence Durrell
I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything. View quote
Lawrence Durrell
Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other. View quote
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History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living. (Lawrence Durrell)
It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin. View quote
Lawrence Durrell
Lovers can find nothing to say to each other that has not been said and unsaid a thousand times over. Kisses were invented to translate such nothings into wounds. View quote
Lawrence Durrell
The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time. View quote
Lawrence Durrell
Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection. View quote
Lawrence Durrell