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Love Quotes by Lawrence Durrell
- Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine!
- It is not peace we seek but meaning.
- It's unthinkable not to love -you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.
- But I love to feel events overlapping each other, crawling over one another like wet crabs in a basket
- Truth is what most contradicts itself.
- Love joins and then divides. How else would we be growing?
- Comedians are the nearest to suicide.
- The sense of truth no matter how subjective is necessary for the experience of beauty.
- It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.
- The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
- A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.
- The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a…
- A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants.
- Music is only love looking for words.
- Gamblers and lovers really play to lose.
- A diary is the last place to go if you wish to seek the truth about a person. Nobody dares to make the final confession…
- She took kisses like so many coats of paint […] how long and how vainly I searched for excuses which might make her amorality if…
- Odd, isn't it? He really was the right man for her in a sort of way; but then as you know, it is a law…
- I am just a refugee from the long slow toothache of English life. It is terrible to love life so much you can hardly breathe!
- Love is like trench warfare - you cannot see the enemy, but you know he is there and that it is wiser to keep your…
- 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.
- 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…
- There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.
More Love Quotes
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — 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
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — 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
- When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe. — Dario Argento
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide