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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: "Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure."

Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.




Lawrence Durrell Quotes: "Music is only love looking for words."

Music is only love looking for words.



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: "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: "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: "It is not love that is blind, but jealousy."

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.




Lawrence Durrell Quotes: "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."

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

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



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: "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: "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: "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: "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: "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: "Our inventions mirror our secret wishes."

Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.



Lawrence Durrell Quotes: "Music was invented to confirm human loneliness."

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.



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: "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: "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: "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."

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 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: "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: "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: "Truth disappears with the telling of it."

Truth disappears with the telling of it.



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: "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: "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: "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: "Art—the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind the sackcloth of reality, forced out by the pain of human memory."

Art—the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind the sackcloth of reality, forced out by the pain of human memory.



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: "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: "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: "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: "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: "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: "Brazil is bigger than Europe, wilder than Africa, and weirder than Baffin Land."

Brazil is bigger than Europe, wilder than Africa, and weirder than Baffin Land.



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

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



Lawrence Durrell Quotes: "The cocktail party - as the name itself indicates - was originally invented by dogs. They are simply bottom-sniffings raised to the rank of formal ceremonies."

The cocktail party - as the name itself indicates - was originally invented by dogs. They are simply bottom-sniffings raised to the rank of formal ceremonies.



Lawrence Durrell Quotes: "We should tackle reality in a slightly jokey way, otherwise we miss its point."

We should tackle reality in a slightly jokey way, otherwise we miss its point.



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: "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: "Religion is simply art bastardized out of all recognition."

Religion is simply art bastardized out of all recognition.



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: "Art like life is an open secret."

Art like life is an open secret.



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.