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Lawrence Durrell quotes: You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect. You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect.
Lawrence Durrell quotes: There is never enough light." To which I responded without thought: "For women perhaps. We men are less exigent. There is never enough light." To which I responded without thought: "For women perhaps. We men are less exigent.
Lawrence Durrell quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Books everywhere piled up in heaps, the rare companions of a solitude not self-imposed but sought. Books everywhere piled up in heaps, the rare companions of a solitude not self-imposed but sought.
Lawrence Durrell quotes: Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off. Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off.
Lawrence Durrell quotes: When one is fully extended by day and exhausted every evening one lives differently, without the weight of yesterday or tomorrow on one's shoulders. I When one is fully extended by day and exhausted every evening one lives differently, without the weight of yesterday or tomorrow on one's shoulders. I
Lawrence Durrell quotes: I have done so many things in my life," she said to the mirror. "Evil things, perhaps. But never unattentively, never wastefully ... was I wrong? I have done so many things in my life," she said to the mirror. "Evil things, perhaps. But never unattentively, never wastefully ... was I wrong?
Lawrence Durrell quotes: Life is like a cucumber. One minute it's in your hand, the next it's up you ass. Life is like a cucumber. One minute it's in your hand, the next it's up you ass.
Lawrence Durrell quotes: Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me, and then show me the place where he was hanged. Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me, and then show me the place where he was hanged.
Lawrence Durrell quotes: Gamblers and lovers really play to lose. Gamblers and lovers really play to lose.
Lawrence Durrell quotes: 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. 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 quotes: We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it. 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 quotes: I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural. I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural.
Lawrence Durrell quotes: Our inventions mirror our secret wishes. Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.
Lawrence Durrell quotes: I am just a refugee from the long slow toothache of English life. It is terrible to love life so much you can hardly breathe! I am just a refugee from the long slow toothache of English life. It is terrible to love life so much you can hardly breathe!
Lawrence Durrell quotes: Love is poetry plus biology. Love is poetry plus biology.
Lawrence Durrell quotes: She looked like a statue of pride hanging its head. She looked like a statue of pride hanging its head.
Lawrence Durrell quotes: It is hard to fight with one's heart's desires; whatever it wishes to get, it purchases at the cost of the soul. It is hard to fight with one's heart's desires; whatever it wishes to get, it purchases at the cost of the soul.
Lawrence Durrell quotes: But I love to feel events overlapping each other, crawling over one another like wet crabs in a basket But I love to feel events overlapping each other, crawling over one another like wet crabs in a basket
Lawrence Durrell quotes: Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened. Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
Lawrence Durrell quotes: To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off. To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off.
Lawrence Durrell quotes: And morality is nothing if it is merely a form of good behavior. And morality is nothing if it is merely a form of good behavior.
Lawrence Durrell quotes: Shyness has laws you can only give yourself; tragically to those who least understand. Shyness has laws you can only give yourself; tragically to those who least understand.
Lawrence Durrell quotes: the indifference of the natural world to the constructions of art the indifference of the natural world to the constructions of art
Lawrence Durrell quotes: Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie. Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.
Lawrence Durrell quotes: Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked. Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
Lawrence Durrell quotes: It's unthinkable not to love -you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin. It's unthinkable not to love -you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.
Lawrence Durrell quotes: It is not peace we seek but meaning. It is not peace we seek but meaning.
Lawrence Durrell quotes: Truth is a woman. That is why it is enigmatic. Truth is a woman. That is why it is enigmatic.
Lawrence Durrell quotes: Is it any wonder that I absent-mindedly take the entrance marked Aliens Only whenever I enter? Is it any wonder that I absent-mindedly take the entrance marked Aliens Only whenever I enter?
Lawrence Durrell quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were. Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were.
Lawrence Durrell quotes: How grudging memory is, and how bitterly she clutches the raw material of her daily work. How grudging memory is, and how bitterly she clutches the raw material of her daily work.
Lawrence Durrell quotes: A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water. A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water.
Lawrence Durrell quotes: Life, the raw material, is only lived in potentia until the artist deploys it in his work. Life, the raw material, is only lived in potentia until the artist deploys it in his work.
Lawrence Durrell quotes: Comedians are the nearest to suicide. Comedians are the nearest to suicide.
Lawrence Durrell quotes: It is not love that is blind, but jealousy. It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.
Lawrence Durrell quotes: To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger. To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger.
Lawrence Durrell quotes: ...man is only an extension of the spirit of place. ...man is only an extension of the spirit of place.
Lawrence Durrell quotes: A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants. A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants.
Lawrence Durrell quotes: Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine! Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine!
Lawrence Durrell quotes: We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd. We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.
Lawrence Durrell quotes: Music is only love looking for words. Music is only love looking for words.
Lawrence Durrell quotes: Art like life is an open secret. Art like life is an open secret.
Lawrence Durrell quotes: Each of our five senses contains an art. Each of our five senses contains an art.
Lawrence Durrell quotes: Sorrow is implicit in love as gravitation is implicit in mass. Sorrow is implicit in love as gravitation is implicit in mass.
Lawrence Durrell quotes: The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you ... The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you ...
Lawrence Durrell quotes: Love joins and then divides. How else would we be growing? Love joins and then divides. How else would we be growing?
Lawrence Durrell quotes: History - the lamp which illumines national character ... History - the lamp which illumines national character ...
Lawrence Durrell quotes: They say that if you get bored enough with calamity you can learn to laugh. They say that if you get bored enough with calamity you can learn to laugh.
Lawrence Durrell quotes: It is the duty of every patriot to hate his country creatively. It is the duty of every patriot to hate his country creatively.
Lawrence Durrell quotes: It only takes one match to ignite a haystack, or one remark to fire a mind. It only takes one match to ignite a haystack, or one remark to fire a mind.
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. 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 quotes: I love the French edition with its uncut pages. I would not want a reader too lazy to use a knife on me. I love the French edition with its uncut pages. I would not want a reader too lazy to use a knife on me.
Lawrence Durrell quotes: Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us? Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?
Lawrence Durrell quotes: Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure. Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.
Lawrence Durrell quotes: I see artists as a great battalion moving through paint, words, music towards cosmological interpretation. I see artists as a great battalion moving through paint, words, music towards cosmological interpretation.
Lawrence Durrell quotes: Music was invented to confirm human loneliness. Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
Lawrence Durrell quotes: Yet the presence of death always refreshes experience thus--that is its function: to help us deliberate on the novelty of time. Yet the presence of death always refreshes experience thus--that is its function: to help us deliberate on the novelty of time.
Lawrence Durrell quotes: Every man is made of clay and diamond, and no woman can nourish both. Every man is made of clay and diamond, and no woman can nourish both.
Lawrence Durrell quotes: Truth disappears with the telling of it. Truth disappears with the telling of it.
Lawrence Durrell quotes: All artists today are expected to cultivate a little fashionable unhappiness. All artists today are expected to cultivate a little fashionable unhappiness.
Lawrence Durrell quotes: But there are more than five sexes and only demotic Greek seems to distinguish among them. But there are more than five sexes and only demotic Greek seems to distinguish among them.
Lawrence Durrell quotes: A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying. A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.
Lawrence Durrell quotes: I am quite alone. I am neither happy nor unhappy; I lie suspended like a hair or a feather in the cloudy mixtures of memory. I am quite alone. I am neither happy nor unhappy; I lie suspended like a hair or a feather in the cloudy mixtures of memory.
Lawrence Durrell quotes: It's only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness. It's only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness.
Lawrence Durrell quotes: If one falls in love with a mask when one is masked oneself ... which of you will first have the courage to raise it? If one falls in love with a mask when one is masked oneself ... which of you will first have the courage to raise it?
Lawrence Durrell quotes: Truth is what most contradicts itself. Truth is what most contradicts itself.
Lawrence Durrell quotes: I don't believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced. I don't believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced.
Lawrence Durrell quotes: Whatever the heart desires, it purchases at the cost of soul Whatever the heart desires, it purchases at the cost of soul
Lawrence Durrell quotes: Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist. Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.
Lawrence Durrell quotes: Truth is a matter of direct apprehension-you can't climb a ladder of mental concepts to it. Truth is a matter of direct apprehension-you can't climb a ladder of mental concepts to it.
Lawrence Durrell quotes: A critic is a lug-worm in the liver of literature. A critic is a lug-worm in the liver of literature.
Lawrence Durrell quotes: I long to be musical in body and mind. I want style, consort. Not the little mental squirts as if through the ticker-tape of the mind. I long to be musical in body and mind. I want style, consort. Not the little mental squirts as if through the ticker-tape of the mind.
Lawrence Durrell quotes: Of women, the most we can say, not being Frenchmen, is that they are burrowing animals. Of women, the most we can say, not being Frenchmen, is that they are burrowing animals.
Lawrence Durrell quotes: Love is like trench warfare - you cannot see the enemy, but you know he is there and that it is wiser to keep your head down. Love is like trench warfare - you cannot see the enemy, but you know he is there and that it is wiser to keep your head down.
Lawrence Durrell quotes: If you have tendencies you've got to have scope If you have tendencies you've got to have scope
Lawrence Durrell quotes: What do you believe? You never say anything. At the most you sometimes laugh. What do you believe? You never say anything. At the most you sometimes laugh.
Lawrence Durrell quotes: Words, the acid-bath of words. Words, the acid-bath of words.
Lawrence Durrell quotes: Most people lie and let life play upon them like the tepid discharges of a douche-bag. Most people lie and let life play upon them like the tepid discharges of a douche-bag.
Lawrence Durrell quotes: Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection. Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.
Lawrence Durrell quotes: But that is what islands are for; they are places where different destinies can meet and intersect in the full isolation of time. But that is what islands are for; they are places where different destinies can meet and intersect in the full isolation of time.
Lawrence Durrell quotes: The memory of man is as old as misfortune The memory of man is as old as misfortune
Lawrence Durrell quotes: The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time. The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
Lawrence Durrell quotes: The sense of truth no matter how subjective is necessary for the experience of beauty. The sense of truth no matter how subjective is necessary for the experience of beauty.
Lawrence Durrell quotes: I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know. I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.
Lawrence Durrell quotes: Poetry is what happens when an anxiety meets a technique. Poetry is what happens when an anxiety meets a technique.
Lawrence Durrell quotes: she had been raped by one of her relations. One cannot help smiling at the commonplaceness of the thought. she had been raped by one of her relations. One cannot help smiling at the commonplaceness of the thought.
Lawrence Durrell quotes: The realisation of one's own death is the point at which one becomes adult. The realisation of one's own death is the point at which one becomes adult.
Lawrence Durrell quotes: History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living
Lawrence Durrell quotes: People only see in us the contemptible skirt-fever which rules our actions but completely miss the beauty-hunger underlying it. People only see in us the contemptible skirt-fever which rules our actions but completely miss the beauty-hunger underlying it.
Lawrence Durrell quotes: i imagine therefore I belong and am free. i imagine therefore I belong and am free.
Lawrence Durrell quotes: Science is the poetry of the intellect and poetry the science of the heart's affections. Science is the poetry of the intellect and poetry the science of the heart's affections.
Lawrence Durrell quotes: Her efforts to achieve herself had led her always towards, and not away from him. Her efforts to achieve herself had led her always towards, and not away from him.
Lawrence Durrell quotes: He thought and suffered a good deal but he lacked the resolution to darethe first requisite of a practitioner. He thought and suffered a good deal but he lacked the resolution to dare
the first requisite of a practitioner.
Lawrence Durrell quotes: What are stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing? What are stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing?
Lawrence Durrell quotes: One word 'love' has to do service for so many different kinds of the same animal. One word 'love' has to do service for so many different kinds of the same animal.
Lawrence Durrell quotes: Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine
Lawrence Durrell quotes: In marriage they legitimized despair; every kiss is the conquest of a repulsion. In marriage they legitimized despair; every kiss is the conquest of a repulsion.
Lawrence Durrell quotes: Let us define 'man' as a poet perpetually conspiring against himself. Let us define 'man' as a poet perpetually conspiring against himself.

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