Lawrence Durrell

“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

“It was cold in the street and I crossed to the lighted blaze of shops in Rue Fuad. In a grocer’s window…

— Lawrence Durrell

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

— Lawrence Durrell

The national characteristics... the restless metaphysical curiosity, the tenderness of good living and the passionate individualism. This is the invisible constant in…

— Lawrence Durrell

Life, the raw material, is only lived in potentia until the artist deploys it in his work.

— Lawrence Durrell

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

— Lawrence Durrell

“He hablado de la inutilidad del arte, pero no he dicho la verdad sobre el consuelo que procura.”

— Lawrence Durrell

“The telephone is a modern symbol for communications which never take place”

— Lawrence Durrell

Very few people realise that sex is a psychic and not a physical act. The clumsy coupling of human beings is simply…

— Lawrence Durrell

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

— Lawrence Durrell

“The seeds of future events are carried within ourselves. They are implicit in us and unfold according to the laws of their…

— Lawrence Durrell

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

“Yet the presence of death always refreshes experience thus--that is its function: to help us deliberate on the novelty of time.”

— Lawrence Durrell

“...books everywhere piled up in heaps, the rare companions of a solitude not self-imposed but sought.”

— Lawrence Durrell

Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off.

— Lawrence Durrell

What are stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing?

— Lawrence Durrell

“There are some characters in this world who are marked down for self-destruction, and to these no amount of rational argument can…

— Lawrence Durrell

Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?

— Lawrence Durrell

“For all drama creates bondage, and the actor is only significant to the degree that he is bound.”

— Lawrence Durrell

“am recalling now how during that last spring (forever) we walked together at full moon, overcome by the soft dazed air of…

— Lawrence Durrell

“Idle, she writes, to imagine falling in love as a correspondence of minds, of thoughts,; it is a simultaneous firing of two…

— Lawrence Durrell

“He always puzzled me —except when I had him in my arms.”

— Lawrence Durrell

“Let us go to bed together and ignore the loutish reality of the world.”

— Lawrence Durrell

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by…

— Lawrence Durrell

A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water.

— Lawrence Durrell