History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living. — Lawrence Durrell History Copy Share Image
The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values. — Lawrence Durrell Art Copy Share Image
To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger. — Lawrence Durrell Danger Copy Share Image
“He hablado de la inutilidad del arte, pero no he dicho la verdad sobre el consuelo que procura.” — Lawrence Durrell Amor Copy Share Image
Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us? — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“What do you believe? You never say anything. At the most you sometimes laugh.” — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection. — Lawrence Durrell Introspection Copy Share Image
Odd, isn't it? He really was the right man for her in a sort of way; but then as you know, it… — Lawrence Durrell Law Copy Share Image
I have done so many things in my life," she said to the mirror. "Evil things, perhaps. But never unattentively, never wastefully...was… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“One night he woke to the soughing of great wings and saw a bat-like creature with the head of a violin resting… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“I meant of course the whole portentous scrimmage of sex itself, the act of penetration which could lead a man to despair… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
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 Art Copy Share Image
They flower spontaneously out of the demands of our natures - and the best of them lead us not only outward in… — Lawrence Durrell Demand Copy Share Image
“The most tender, the most tragic of illusions is perhaps to believe that our actions can add or subtract from the total… — Lawrence Durrell Evil Copy Share Image
“God did not create us, nor did He wish us to be created. We are the work of a lesser deity, a… — Lawrence Durrell Deity Copy Share Image
The whole Mediterranean, the sculpture, the palm, the gold beads, the bearded heroes, the wine, the ideas, the ships, the moonlight, the… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“In her, as an Alexandrian, licence was in a curious way a form of self-abnegation, a travesty of freedom; and if I… — Lawrence Durrell Children Copy Share Image
“For years one has to put up with the feeling that people do not care, really care, about one; then one day… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
…I once found a list of diseases as yet unclassified by medical science, and among these there occurred the word Islomania, which… — Lawrence Durrell Affliction Copy Share Image
“A good doctor, and in a special sense the psychologist, makes it quite deliberately, slightly harder for the patient to recover too… — Lawrence Durrell Doctor Copy Share Image
“am recalling now how during that last spring (forever) we walked together at full moon, overcome by the soft dazed air of… — Lawrence Durrell Full moon Copy Share Image
She took kisses like so many coats of paint […] how long and how vainly I searched for excuses which might make… — Lawrence Durrell Beautiful Copy Share Image
“I realized then the truth about all love: that it is an absolute which takes all or forfeits all. The other feelings,… — Lawrence Durrell Aphrodite Copy Share Image
“In marriage they legitimized despair; every kiss is the conquest of a repulsion.” — Lawrence Durrell Despair Copy Share Image
A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
All artists today are expected to cultivate a little fashionable unhappiness. — Lawrence Durrell Art Copy Share Image
Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
It’s only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
He thought and suffered a good deal but he lacked the resolution to dare--the first requisite of a practitioner. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
Shyness has laws you can only give yourself; tragically to those who least understand. — Lawrence Durrell Dating Copy Share Image
The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
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