"Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only……" — Lawrence Durrell
"Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie."
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93 Quotes by Lawrence Durrell
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- Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or…
- It is not peace we seek but meaning.
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- It's unthinkable not to love -you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.
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- Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.
- Life is like a cucumber. One minute it's in your hand, the next it's up you ass.
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