You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect. — Lawrence Durrell Happiness Copy Share Image
Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened. — Lawrence Durrell Comedy Copy Share Image
I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural. — Lawrence Durrell Approach Copy Share Image
“One word ‘love’ has to do service for so many different kinds of the same animal.” — Lawrence Durrell Animal Copy Share Image
“The world is like a cucumber—today it's in your hand, tomorrow up your arse.” — Lawrence Durrell Cucumber Copy Share Image
Brazil is bigger than Europe, wilder than Africa, and weirder than Baffin Land. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“Any concentration of the will displaces life and gives it bias in motion. Reality, he believed, was always trying to copy the… — Lawrence Durrell Life Copy Share Image
“Underneath an artist's preoccupations with sex, society, religion, etc. (all the staple abstractions that allow the forebrain to chatter) there is a… — Lawrence Durrell Art Copy Share Image
I am quite alone. I am neither happy nor unhappy; I lie suspended like a hair or a feather in the cloudy… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“Minds dismembered by their sexual part’ Balthazar had said once ‘never find peace until old age and failing power as persuade them… — Lawrence Durrell Old age Copy Share Image
“He felt that his mind had become a battle-ground for the forces of good and evil and that his task was to… — Lawrence Durrell Evil Copy Share Image
I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no… — Lawrence Durrell Approach Copy Share Image
“I long to be musical in body and mind. I want style, consort. Not the little mental squirts as if through the… — Lawrence Durrell Consort Copy Share Image
Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by… — Lawrence Durrell Art Copy Share Image
“These notes, however they may be read, are intended only as a painstaking affectionate commentary on a world into which I have… — Lawrence Durrell Books Copy Share Image
“The seeds of future events are carried within ourselves. They are implicit in us and unfold according to the laws of their… — Lawrence Durrell Future Copy Share Image
For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this… — Lawrence Durrell Art Copy Share Image
“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 Balthazar Copy Share Image
I have been thinking about the girl I met last night in the mirror: dark on the marble-ivory white: glossy black hair:… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
