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Lawrence Durrell (Writer)

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

— Lawrence Durrell love

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

— Lawrence Durrell war

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

— Lawrence Durrell love

Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.

— Lawrence Durrell wishes

Music is only love looking for words.

— Lawrence Durrell love

I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.

— Lawrence Durrell free

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

— Lawrence Durrell loneliness

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.

— Lawrence Durrell war

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 love

A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.

— Lawrence Durrell love

Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.

— Lawrence Durrell men

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

— Lawrence Durrell living

A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants.

— Lawrence Durrell love

No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.

— Lawrence Durrell wit

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.

— Lawrence Durrell love

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.

— Lawrence Durrell truth

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

— Lawrence Durrell wit

We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.

— Lawrence Durrell children

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.

— Lawrence Durrell art

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

— Lawrence Durrell age

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.

— Lawrence Durrell novel

Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.

— Lawrence Durrell art

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

— Lawrence Durrell you

Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.

— Lawrence Durrell war

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.

— Lawrence Durrell life

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