Lawrence Durrell Quotes

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• Love is like trench warfare - you cannot see the enemy, but you know he is there and that it is wiser to keep your…
• Frost in January minus 20 for a week. Dead birds frozen on the branch—they fall with the first thaw like ripe fruit—death-ripened. We shall all…
• The realisation of one's own death is the point at which one becomes adult.
• Sorrow is implicit in love as gravitation is implicit in mass.
• You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect.
• The loved object is simply one that has shared an experience at the same moment of time, narcissistically; and the desire to be near the…
• Whatever the heart desires, it purchases at the cost of soul
• We live" writes Pursewarden somewhere, "lives based upon selected fictions. Our view of reality is conditioned by our position in space and time - not…
• To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger.
• Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine
• An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left.
• Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
• There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.

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