Lawrence Durrell Quotes

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• To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off.
• Truth is what most contradicts itself.
• All artists today are expected to cultivate a little fashionable unhappiness.
• Of women, the most we can say, not being Frenchmen, is that they are burrowing animals.
• Life, the raw material, is only lived in potentia until the artist deploys it in his work.
• The artist's work constitutes the only satisfactory relationship he can have with his fellow men since he seeks his real friends among the dead and…
• They say that if you get bored enough with calamity you can learn to laugh.
• A critic is a lug-worm in the liver of literature.
• Love joins and then divides. How else would we be growing?
• Comedians are the nearest to suicide.
• Truth is a matter of direct apprehension-you can't climb a ladder of mental concepts to it.
• Truth is a woman. That is why it is enigmatic.
• The sense of truth no matter how subjective is necessary for the experience of beauty.
• No history much? Perhaps. Only this ominous Dark beauty flowering under veils, Trapped in the spectrum of a dying style: A village like an instinct…
• It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.
• The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
• I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield…
• Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
• Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.
• Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.

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