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> [“In her, as an Alexandrian, licence was in a curious way a form of self-abnegation, a travesty of freedom; and if I saw her as an exemplar of the city it was not of Alexandria, or Plotinus that I was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-durrell/in-her-as-an-alexandrian-licence-was-in-a-curious-way-a-form-of-self/)

[Lawrence Durrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lawrence-durrell/)

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## More by Lawrence Durrell

> [Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-durrell/life-is-more-complicated-than-we-think-yet-far-simpler-than-anyone/)

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> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-durrell/suddenly-at-the-end-of-the-great-couloir-my-vision-is-sharpened-by-a/)

[Lawrence Durrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lawrence-durrell/)

> [To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-durrell/to-be-the-equal-of-reality-you-must-learn-how-to-ignore-it-without/)

[Lawrence Durrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lawrence-durrell/)

> [The cocktail party - as the name itself indicates - was originally invented by dogs. They are simply bottom-sniffings raised to the rank of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-durrell/the-cocktail-party-as-the-name-itself-indicates-was-originally/)

[Lawrence Durrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lawrence-durrell/)

> [It only takes one match to ignite a haystack, or one remark to fire a mind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-durrell/it-only-takes-one-match-to-ignite-a-haystack-or-one-remark-to-fire-a/)

[Lawrence Durrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lawrence-durrell/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-durrell/he-felt-that-his-mind-had-become-a-battle-ground-for-the-forces-of/)

[Lawrence Durrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lawrence-durrell/)

> [Science is the poetry of the intellect and poetry the science of the heart's affections.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-durrell/science-is-the-poetry-of-the-intellect-and-poetry-the-science-of-the/)

[Lawrence Durrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lawrence-durrell/)

> [Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-durrell/travel-can-be-one-of-the-most-rewarding-forms-of-introspection/)

[Lawrence Durrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lawrence-durrell/)

> [We live" writes Pursewarden somewhere, "lives based upon selected fictions. Our view of reality is conditioned by our position in space and time -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-durrell/we-live-writes-pursewarden-somewhere-lives-based-upon-selected/)

[Lawrence Durrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lawrence-durrell/)

> [It's unthinkable not to love -you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-durrell/it-s-unthinkable-not-to-love-you-d-have-a-severe-nervous-breakdown-or/)

[Lawrence Durrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lawrence-durrell/)

> [“...man is only an extension of the spirit of place.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-durrell/man-is-only-an-extension-of-the-spirit-of-place/)

[Lawrence Durrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lawrence-durrell/)

> [“God did not create us, nor did He wish us to be created. We are the work of a lesser deity, a demiurge, who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-durrell/god-did-not-create-us-nor-did-he-wish-us-to-be-created-we-are-the/)

[Lawrence Durrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lawrence-durrell/)

> [The steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said "Your stay with us is so brief,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-durrell/the-steward-according-to-custom-had-stopped-all-the-clocks-this-in/)

[Lawrence Durrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lawrence-durrell/)

> [Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-durrell/everyone-loathes-his-own-country-and-countrymen-if-he-is-any-sort-of/)

[Lawrence Durrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lawrence-durrell/)

> [“The slither of tyres across the waves of the desert under a sky blue and frost-bound in winter; or in summer a fearful lunar…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-durrell/the-slither-of-tyres-across-the-waves-of-the-desert-under-a-sky-blue/)

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