"Love is like trench warfare - you cannot……" — Lawrence Durrell
"Love is like trench warfare - you cannot see the enemy, but you know he is there and that it is wiser to keep your head down."
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93 Quotes by Lawrence Durrell
Lawrence Durrell has 93 quotes on this site.
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Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine!
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Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.
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Shyness has laws you can only give yourself; tragically to those who least understand.
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No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
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Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or…
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It is not peace we seek but meaning.
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The whole Mediterranean, the sculpture, the palm, the gold beads, the bearded heroes, the wine, the ideas, the ships, the…
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Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie.
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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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The national characteristics... the restless metaphysical curiosity, the tenderness of good living and the passionate individualism. This is the invisible…
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Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they…
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Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.
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In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty…
— Jacques Barzun
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Anybody who gives you a belief system is your enemy, because the belief system becomes the barrier for your eyes,…
— Rajneesh
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He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I cannot see why we should expect an infinite God to do better in another world than he does in…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Prejudice, which sees what it pleases, cannot see what is plain.
— Aubrey Thomas de Vere
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Unable to understand how or why the person we see behaves as he does, we attribute his behavior to a…
— B.F. Skinner
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Fear and faith have something in common. They both ask us to believe in something we cannot see.
— Joel Osteen
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Heap not on this mound roses that she loved so well; why bewilder her with roses that she cannot see…
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I believe that whatever we do or live for has its causality; it is good, however, that we cannot see…
— Albert Einstein
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Too often we jump to the conclusion that something is impossible simply because we cannot see the solution. No one…
— Wayne Dyer
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We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised…
— Mark Twain
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