A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants. — Lawrence Durrell City Copy Share Image
It only takes one match to ignite a haystack, or one remark to fire a mind. — Lawrence Durrell Fire Copy Share Image
Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist. — Lawrence Durrell Art Copy Share Image
Let us define 'man' as a poet perpetually conspiring against himself. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do… — Lawrence Durrell Books 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 Books Copy Share Image
Of women, the most we can say, not being Frenchmen, is that they are burrowing animals. — Lawrence Durrell Animal Copy Share Image
Sorrow is implicit in love as gravitation is implicit in mass. — Lawrence Durrell Gravitation Copy Share Image
Every man is made of clay and diamond, and no woman can nourish both. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
Somewhere in the heart of experience there is an order and a coherence which we might purprise if we were attentive enough,… — Lawrence Durrell Coherence Copy Share Image
after all the work of the philosophers on his soul and the doctors on his body, what can we really say we… — Lawrence Durrell Body Copy Share Image
“I hunt everywhere for a life worth living. Perhaps if I could die or go mad it would provide a focus for… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“Yet the presence of death always refreshes experience thus--that is its function: to help us deliberate on the novelty of time.” — Lawrence Durrell Death Copy Share Image
“God’s real and subtle nature must be clear of distinctions: a glass of spring-water, tasteless, odourless, merely refreshing: and surely its appeal… — Lawrence Durrell Nature Copy Share Image
Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we… — Lawrence Durrell Desire Copy Share Image
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.… — Lawrence Durrell Bird Copy Share Image
The cocktail party - as the name itself indicates - was originally invented by dogs. They are simply bottom-sniffings raised to the… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“If you are born of the artist tribe it is a waste of time to try and function as a priest. You… — Lawrence Durrell Art Copy Share Image
I have decided to leave Clea’s last letter un-answered. I no longer wish to coerce anyone, to make promises, to think of… — 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 Love Copy Share Image
“I suppose events are simply a sort of annotation of our feelings--the one might be deduced from the other. Time carries us… — Lawrence Durrell Feelings Copy Share Image
“No one thing can explain everything; though everything can illuminate something. God, I must be still drunk. If God were anything he… — Lawrence Durrell Art Copy Share Image
“None of the great religions have done more than exclude, throw out a long range of prohibitions. But prohibitions create the desire… — Lawrence Durrell Prohibitions Copy Share Image
The steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said, "Your stay with us is… — Lawrence Durrell Ancient Copy Share Image
“These are the moments which possess the writer, not the lover, and which live on perpetually. One can return to them time… — Lawrence Durrell Time Copy Share Image
Poetry is what happens when an anxiety meets a technique. — Lawrence Durrell Anxiety Copy Share Image
All culture corrupts, but French culture corrupts absolutely. — Lawrence Durrell Corruption Copy Share Image
