Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened. — Lawrence Durrell Comedy Copy Share Image
You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect. — Lawrence Durrell Happiness Copy Share Image
“One word ‘love’ has to do service for so many different kinds of the same animal.” — Lawrence Durrell Animal Copy Share Image
I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural. — Lawrence Durrell Approach Copy Share Image
“The world is like a cucumber—today it's in your hand, tomorrow up your arse.” — Lawrence Durrell Cucumber Copy Share Image
Brazil is bigger than Europe, wilder than Africa, and weirder than Baffin Land. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
Life, the raw material, is only lived in potentia until the artist deploys it in his work. — Lawrence Durrell Art Copy Share Image
Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
I have been thinking about the girl I met last night in the mirror: dark on the marble-ivory white: glossy black hair:… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“Balthazar sighed and said "Truth naked and unashamed. That's a splendid phrase. But we always see her as she seems, never as… — Lawrence Durrell Balthazar Copy Share Image
I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no… — Lawrence Durrell Approach Copy Share Image
“He felt that his mind had become a battle-ground for the forces of good and evil and that his task was to… — Lawrence Durrell Evil Copy Share Image
“I long to be musical in body and mind. I want style, consort. Not the little mental squirts as if through the… — Lawrence Durrell Consort Copy Share Image
Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by… — Lawrence Durrell Art Copy Share Image
“Any concentration of the will displaces life and gives it bias in motion. Reality, he believed, was always trying to copy the… — Lawrence Durrell Life Copy Share Image
“We were like mourners at an invisible cenotaph during the two minutes’ silence which commemorates an irremediable failure of the human will.” — Lawrence Durrell Failure 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
“I love the French edition with its uncut pages. I would not want a reader too lazy to use a knife on… — Lawrence Durrell Books Copy Share Image
A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water. — Lawrence Durrell Cold Copy Share Image
Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine! — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
Life is like a cucumber. One minute it's in your hand, the next it's up you ass. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“Words are the mirrors of our discontents merely; they contain all the huge unhatched eggs of the world's sorrows.” — Lawrence Durrell Language Copy Share Image
“The telephone is a modern symbol for communications which never take place” — Lawrence Durrell Communication Copy Share Image
“For all drama creates bondage, and the actor is only significant to the degree that he is bound.” — Lawrence Durrell Actor Copy Share Image
The sense of truth no matter how subjective is necessary for the experience of beauty. — Lawrence Durrell Beauty Copy Share Image
“But then is not life itself a fairy-tale which we lose the power of apprehending as we grow? No matter.” — Lawrence Durrell Fairy tale Copy Share Image
“Let us go to bed together and ignore the loutish reality of the world.” — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“And morality is nothing if it is merely a form of good behavior.” — Lawrence Durrell Behavior Copy Share Image
But I love to feel events overlapping each other, crawling over one another like wet crabs in a basket — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“He loved the desert because there the wind blew out one's footsteps like candle flames.” — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me, and then show me the place where he was hanged. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“This world represents the promise of a unique happiness which we are not well-enough equipped to grasp.” — Lawrence Durrell Happiness Copy Share Image
It is the duty of every patriot to hate his country creatively. — Lawrence Durrell Country Copy Share Image
It's unthinkable not to love -you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin. — Lawrence Durrell Breakdown Copy Share Image
They say that if you get bored enough with calamity you can learn to laugh. — Lawrence Durrell Adversity Copy Share Image
I see artists as a great battalion moving through paint, words, music towards cosmological interpretation. — Lawrence Durrell Art Copy Share Image
“A million muffin-eating moralists were waiting, not for us, Brother Ass, but for the plucky and tedious Trollope!” — Lawrence Durrell Trollope Copy Share Image
“the indifference of the natural world to the constructions of art” — Lawrence Durrell Art Copy Share Image
