Lawrence Durrell Quotes
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Lawrence Durrell Famous Quotes & Sayings
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You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect.
There is never enough light." To which I responded without thought: "For women perhaps. We men are less exigent.
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.
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
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?
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.
We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.
I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural.
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!
It is hard to fight with one's heart's desires; whatever it wishes to get, it purchases at the cost of the soul.
But I love to feel events overlapping each other, crawling over one another like wet crabs in a basket
It's unthinkable not to love -you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.
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.
Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were.
The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you ...
There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.
I love the French edition with its uncut pages. I would not want a reader too lazy to use a knife on me.
I see artists as a great battalion moving through paint, words, music towards cosmological interpretation.
Yet the presence of death always refreshes experience thus--that is its function: to help us deliberate on the novelty of time.
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.
It's only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness.
If one falls in love with a mask when one is masked oneself ... which of you will first have the courage to raise it?
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 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.
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.
But that is what islands are for; they are places where different destinies can meet and intersect in the full isolation of time.
she had been raped by one of her relations. One cannot help smiling at the commonplaceness of the thought.
People only see in us the contemptible skirt-fever which rules our actions but completely miss the beauty-hunger underlying it.
He thought and suffered a good deal but he lacked the resolution to dare
the first requisite of a practitioner.
the first requisite of a practitioner.