A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants. — Lawrence Durrell City Copy Share Image
To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger. — Lawrence Durrell Danger Copy Share Image
The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values. — Lawrence Durrell Art Copy Share Image
“He hablado de la inutilidad del arte, pero no he dicho la verdad sobre el consuelo que procura.” — Lawrence Durrell Amor Copy Share Image
To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us? — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“What do you believe? You never say anything. At the most you sometimes laugh.” — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection. — Lawrence Durrell Introspection Copy Share Image
“In marriage they legitimized despair; every kiss is the conquest of a repulsion.” — Lawrence Durrell Despair Copy Share Image
The artist's work constitutes the only satisfactory relationship he can have with his fellow men since he seeks his real friends among… — Lawrence Durrell Art Copy Share Image
Somewhere in the heart of experience there is an order and a coherence which we might purprise if we were attentive enough,… — Lawrence Durrell Coherence Copy Share Image
after all the work of the philosophers on his soul and the doctors on his body, what can we really say we… — Lawrence Durrell Body Copy Share Image
“Yet the presence of death always refreshes experience thus--that is its function: to help us deliberate on the novelty of time.” — Lawrence Durrell Death Copy Share Image
“I hunt everywhere for a life worth living. Perhaps if I could die or go mad it would provide a focus for… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
These are the moments which are not calculable, and cannot be assessed in words; they live on in the solution of memory,… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
People only see in us the contemptible skirt-fever which rules our actions but completely miss the beauty-hunger underlying it. — Lawrence Durrell Action Copy Share Image
The steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said "Your stay with us is… — Lawrence Durrell Ancient Copy Share Image
“and all at once it seemed that past and present had joined again without any divisions in it, and that all my… — Lawrence Durrell Past and present Copy Share Image
“we who have travelled much and loved much: we who have -- I will not say suffered for we have always recognized… — Lawrence Durrell Friendship Copy Share Image
Very few people realise that sex is a psychic and not a physical act. The clumsy coupling of human beings is simply… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
We live" writes Pursewarden somewhere, "lives based upon selected fictions. Our view of reality is conditioned by our position in space and… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“The slither of tyres across the waves of the desert under a sky blue and frost-bound in winter; or in summer a… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“A good doctor, and in a special sense the psychologist, makes it quite deliberately, slightly harder for the patient to recover too… — Lawrence Durrell Doctor Copy Share Image
“am recalling now how during that last spring (forever) we walked together at full moon, overcome by the soft dazed air of… — Lawrence Durrell Full moon Copy Share Image
She took kisses like so many coats of paint […] how long and how vainly I searched for excuses which might make… — Lawrence Durrell Beautiful Copy Share Image
History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living. — Lawrence Durrell History Copy Share Image
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