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Inspirational Quotes by Lawrence Durrell
- Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine!
- Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.
- It is not peace we seek but meaning.
- The memory of man is as old as misfortune
- It only takes one match to ignite a haystack, or one remark to fire a mind.
- Truth is what most contradicts itself.
- 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.
- Love joins and then divides. How else would we be growing?
- Comedians are the nearest to suicide.
- 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.
- Music is only love looking for words.
- Truth disappears with the telling of it.
- I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.
- Gamblers and lovers really play to lose.
- Art like life is an open secret.
- Science is the poetry of the intellect and poetry the science of the heart's affections.
- I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural.
- 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.
- To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger.
- Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
More Inspirational Quotes
- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento