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One Quotes by Lawrence Durrell
- No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
- Life is like a cucumber. One minute it's in your hand, the next it's up you ass.
- But I love to feel events overlapping each other, crawling over one another like wet crabs in a basket
- It only takes one match to ignite a haystack, or one remark to fire a mind.
- Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.
- A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants.
- There is no pain compared to that of loving a woman who makes her body accessible to one and yet who is incapable of delivering…
- I have been thinking about the girl I met last night in the mirror: dark on the marble-ivory white: glossy black hair: deep suspiring eyes…
- I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced.
- The realisation of one's own death is the point at which one becomes adult.
- 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…
- An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left.
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