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You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect.
— Lawrence Durrell
God did not create us, nor did He wish us to be created. We are the work of a lesser deity, a demiurge, who wrongly believed himself to be God.
— Lawrence Durrell
There is never enough light." To which I responded without thought: "For women perhaps. We men are less exigent.
— Lawrence Durrell
They flower spontaneously out of the demands of our natures - and the best of them lead us not only outward in space, but inward as well.
— Lawrence Durrell
Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off.
— Lawrence Durrell
I do wish you wouldn't argue with me when I'm knitting.
— Gerald Durrell
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Gradually the magic of the island [Corfu] settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen.
— Gerald Durrell
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
Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me, and then show me the place where he was hanged.
— Lawrence Durrell
Gamblers and lovers really play to lose.
— Lawrence Durrell
I can't be expected to produce deathless prose in an atmosphere of gloom and eucalyptus.
— Gerald Durrell
I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural.
— Lawrence Durrell
All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilization.
— Gerald Durrell
Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.
— Lawrence Durrell
She looked like a statue of pride hanging its head.
— Lawrence Durrell
A house is not a home until it has a dog.
— Gerald Durrell
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
And morality is nothing if it is merely a form of good behavior.
— Lawrence Durrell
the indifference of the natural world to the constructions of art
— Lawrence Durrell
Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.
— Lawrence Durrell
Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
— Lawrence Durrell
Erosion, desertification, and pollution have become our lot. It is a weird form of suicide, for we are bleeding our planet to death.
— Gerald Durrell
It's unthinkable not to love -you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.
— Lawrence Durrell
Truth is a woman. That is why it is enigmatic.
— Lawrence Durrell
Is it any wonder that I absent-mindedly take the entrance marked Aliens Only whenever I enter?
— Lawrence Durrell
Ask the average person his views on snakes and he will, within the space of ten minutes, talk more nonsense than a brace of politicians.
— Gerald 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.
— Lawrence Durrell
Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were.
— Lawrence Durrell
Zoos should concentrate more on the preservation side of things.
— Gerald Durrell
Life, the raw material, is only lived in potentia until the artist deploys it in his work.
— Lawrence Durrell
It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.
— Lawrence Durrell
To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger.
— Lawrence Durrell
The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.
— Lawrence Durrell
I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.
— Lawrence Durrell
He thought and suffered a good deal but he lacked the resolution to darethe first requisite of a practitioner. — Lawrence Durrell
Every man is made of clay and diamond, and no woman can nourish both.
— Lawrence Durrell
It is the duty of every patriot to hate his country creatively.
— Lawrence Durrell
Poetry is what happens when an anxiety meets a technique.
— Lawrence Durrell
she had been raped by one of her relations. One cannot help smiling at the commonplaceness of the thought.
— Lawrence Durrell
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
Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?
— Lawrence Durrell
The realisation of one's own death is the point at which one becomes adult.
— Lawrence Durrell
Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.
— Lawrence Durrell
The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
— Lawrence Durrell
The memory of man is as old as misfortune
— Lawrence Durrell
I said I *liked* being half-educated; you were so much more *surprised* at everything when you were ignorant.
— Gerald Durrell
All culture corrupts, but French culture corrupts absolutely.
— Lawrence Durrell
History - the lamp which illumines national character ...
— Lawrence Durrell
The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you ...
— Lawrence Durrell
Sorrow is implicit in love as gravitation is implicit in mass.
— Lawrence Durrell
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
People only see in us the contemptible skirt-fever which rules our actions but completely miss the beauty-hunger underlying it.
— Lawrence Durrell
There is a pleasure sure In being mad, which none but madmen know.
Dryden, The Spanish Friar II, i — Gerald Durrell
...man is only an extension of the spirit of place.
— Lawrence Durrell
The uncivilized behavior of some human beings in a zoo has to be seen to be believed.
— Gerald Durrell
Music is only love looking for words.
— Lawrence Durrell
Of women, the most we can say, not being Frenchmen, is that they are burrowing animals.
— Lawrence Durrell
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
Truth is what most contradicts itself.
— Lawrence Durrell
But throughout my life I have rarely if ever achieved what I wanted by tackling it in a logical fashion.
— Gerald Durrell
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
Whatever the heart desires, it purchases at the cost of soul
— Lawrence Durrell
Truth disappears with the telling of it.
— Lawrence Durrell
Truth is a matter of direct apprehension-you can't climb a ladder of mental concepts to it.
— Lawrence Durrell
A critic is a lug-worm in the liver of literature.
— Lawrence Durrell
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
It's only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness.
— Lawrence Durrell
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
If you have tendencies you've got to have scope
— Lawrence Durrell
So I went instead and tasted Taki's new white wine. Spiridion! what a wine ... like the blood of a dragon and smooth as a fish ...
— Gerald Durrell
Overflowing with the milk of human kindness, the family had invited everyone they could think of, including people they cordially disliked.
— Gerald Durrell
Words, the acid-bath of words.
— Lawrence Durrell
Most people lie and let life play upon them like the tepid discharges of a douche-bag.
— Lawrence Durrell
The sense of truth no matter how subjective is necessary for the experience of beauty.
— Lawrence Durrell
Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.
— Lawrence Durrell
i imagine therefore I belong and am free.
— Lawrence Durrell
Science is the poetry of the intellect and poetry the science of the heart's affections.
— Lawrence Durrell
Her efforts to achieve herself had led her always towards, and not away from him.
— Lawrence Durrell
There is always a philosophy behind the misadventures of men, even if they are unaware of it.' And
— Lawrence Durrell
My childhood in Corfu shaped my life. If I had the craft of Merlin, I would give every child the gift of my childhood.
— Gerald Durrell
What are stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing?
— Lawrence Durrell
One word 'love' has to do service for so many different kinds of the same animal.
— Lawrence Durrell
Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine
— Lawrence Durrell
History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living
— Lawrence Durrell
Let us define 'man' as a poet perpetually conspiring against himself.
— Lawrence Durrell
Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.
— Lawrence Durrell
They were maps that lived, maps that one could study, frown over, and add to; maps, in short, that really meant something.
— Gerald Durrell
But there are more than five sexes and only demotic Greek seems to distinguish among them.
— Lawrence Durrell
A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.
— Lawrence Durrell
