We should tackle reality in a slightly jokey way, otherwise we miss its point. — Lawrence Durrell Comedy Copy Share Image
Science is the poetry of the intellect and poetry the science of the heart's affections. — Lawrence Durrell Affection Copy Share Image
We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd. — Lawrence Durrell Absurd Copy Share Image
“...books everywhere piled up in heaps, the rare companions of a solitude not self-imposed but sought.” — Lawrence Durrell Book Copy Share Image
“A puritan culture’s conception of art is something which will endorse its morality and flatter its patriotism.” — Lawrence Durrell Art Copy Share Image
“Her efforts to achieve herself had led her always towards, and not away from him.” — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
I am quite alone. I am neither happy nor unhappy; I lie suspended like a hair or a feather in the cloudy… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“Underneath an artist's preoccupations with sex, society, religion, etc. (all the staple abstractions that allow the forebrain to chatter) there is a… — Lawrence Durrell Art Copy Share Image
“Minds dismembered by their sexual part’ Balthazar had said once ‘never find peace until old age and failing power as persuade them… — Lawrence Durrell Old age Copy Share Image
They flower spontaneously out of the demands of our natures - and the best of them lead us not only outward in… — Lawrence Durrell Demand Copy Share Image
“God did not create us, nor did He wish us to be created. We are the work of a lesser deity, a… — Lawrence Durrell Deity Copy Share Image
“The most tender, the most tragic of illusions is perhaps to believe that our actions can add or subtract from the total… — Lawrence Durrell Evil Copy Share Image
No history much? Perhaps. Only this ominous Dark beauty flowering under veils, Trapped in the spectrum of a dying style: A village… — Lawrence Durrell Beauty Copy Share Image
I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to… — Lawrence Durrell Behavior Copy Share Image
Lovers can find nothing to say to each other that has not been said and unsaid a thousand times over. Kisses were… — Lawrence Durrell Kisses Copy Share Image
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… — Lawrence Durrell Action Copy Share Image
I am just a refugee from the long slow toothache of English life. It is terrible to love life so much you… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
Love is like trench warfare - you cannot see the enemy, but you know he is there and that it is wiser… — Lawrence Durrell Enemy Copy Share Image
