The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“One word ‘love’ has to do service for so many different kinds of the same animal.” — Lawrence Durrell 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 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 Copy Share Image
Science is the poetry of the intellect and poetry the science of the heart's affections. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time." Lawrence Durrell in "Clea," book three of the epic Alexandria… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
A diary is the last place to go if you wish to seek the truth about a person. Nobody dares to make… — Lawrence Durrell 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 Copy Share Image
The loved object is simply one that has shared an experience at the same moment of time, narcissistically; and the desire to… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“Idle, she writes, to imagine falling in love as a correspondence of minds, of thoughts,; it is a simultaneous firing of two… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine! — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
The sense of truth no matter how subjective is necessary for the experience of beauty. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
Odd, isn't it? He really was the right man for her in a sort of way; but then as you know, it… — Lawrence Durrell 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 Copy Share Image
The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute… — Lawrence Durrell 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 Copy Share Image
“I realized then the truth about all love: that it is an absolute which takes all or forfeits all. The other feelings,… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“In these days Melissa's absorbed and provoking gentleness had all the qualities of a rediscovered youth. Her long uncertain fingers - I… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“Suddenly at the end of the great couloir my vision is sharpened by a pale disjunctive shudder as a bar of buttercup-yellow thickening gradually… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
The cocktail party - as the name itself indicates - was originally invented by dogs. They are simply bottom-sniffings raised to the rank of… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
It only takes one match to ignite a haystack, or one remark to fire a mind. — Lawrence Durrell 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 strain every… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
Science is the poetry of the intellect and poetry the science of the heart's affections. — 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 time -… — Lawrence Durrell 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 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 demiurge, who… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
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