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Lawrence Durrell
British
Writer
About the author
Music is only love looking for words.
Lawrence Durrell,
British
Writer
#Love
#Words
#Music
Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.
Lawrence Durrell,
British
Writer
#Wishes
#Inventions
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,
British
Writer
#Children
#Thought
#Measure
#Behavior
Truth disappears with the telling of it.
Lawrence Durrell,
British
Writer
#Truth
Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.
Lawrence Durrell,
British
Writer
#Travel
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,
British
Writer
#Love
#Woman
#Literature
The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
Lawrence Durrell,
British
Writer
#Time
#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,
British
Writer
#Truth
#Rest
#Desire
#Content
#Sickness
Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
Lawrence Durrell,
British
Writer
#Being
#Old
#Insult
#Age
No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
Lawrence Durrell,
British
Writer
#Being
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
Lawrence Durrell,
British
Writer
#Music
#Loneliness
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,
British
Writer
#Life
#People
#Art
#Imagination
#Artists
#Destiny
#Potential
#Compromise
A city becomes a world when one loves one of it's inhabitants.
Lawrence Durrell,
British
Writer
#World
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,
British
Writer
#Time
#Love
#Women
#Fools
#Charity
Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
Lawrence Durrell,
British
Writer
#Men
#Genius
#Laughter
A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.
Lawrence Durrell,
British
Writer
#Love
#Man
#Woman
#Letters
Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.
Lawrence Durrell,
British
Writer
#Country
#Artist
Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.
Lawrence Durrell,
British
Writer
#Satisfaction
#Lie
#Guilt
#Punishment
History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
Lawrence Durrell,
British
Writer
#History
#Wrong
#Living
#Repetition
It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.
Lawrence Durrell,
British
Writer
#Love
#Blind
#Jealousy
I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.
Lawrence Durrell,
British
Writer
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,
British
Writer
#Will
#May
#Circumstances
#Artists
I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.
Lawrence Durrell,
British
Writer
#Trying
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,
British
Writer
#Time
#Night
#Journey
#Yield
#Loneliness
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,
British
Writer
#Energy
#Neurosis