"Music was invented to confirm human loneliness." — Lawrence Durrell

"Music was invented to confirm human loneliness."

— Lawrence Durrell

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93 Quotes by Lawrence Durrell

Lawrence Durrell has 93 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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.
Shyness has laws you can only give yourself; tragically to those who least understand.
No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
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.
The whole Mediterranean, the sculpture, the palm, the gold beads, the bearded heroes, the wine, the ideas, the ships, the…
Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie.
It's unthinkable not to love -you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.
The national characteristics... the restless metaphysical curiosity, the tenderness of good living and the passionate individualism. This is the invisible…
Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they…
Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.

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Religion does not confirm that there are hungry people in the world; it interprets the hungry to be our brethren… — Dorothee Solle
Let us today seek to find that place within each of us where dreams are made, where our highest aspirations… — Dennis Kucinich
Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favorable opinion they have formed of themselves. — Aristotle
Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven. — Joseph Joubert
This, books can do-nor this alone; they give New views to life, and teach us how to live; They soothe… — George Crabbe
Never utter a word if it is not from your navel point and it doesn't confirm your regal, highest self. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them. — Claude Bernard
Every human being is trying to say something to others. Trying to cry out I am alive, notice me! Speak… — Marion D. Hanks

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