"Somewhere in the heart of experience there is……" — Lawrence Durrell
"Somewhere in the heart of experience there is an order and a coherence which we might purprise if we were attentive enough, loving enough, or patient enough."
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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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More Attentive Quotes
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We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth…
— Mary Antin
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Just as in prayer it is not we who momentarily catch His attention, but He ours, so when we fail…
— Charles Brent
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...people mostly pray as if there were no God with them, or as if He did not heed their prayers.…
— John of Kronstadt
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As to my success here I cannot say much as yet: the Indians seem generally kind, and well-disposed towards me,…
— David Brainerd
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While praying, listen to the words very carefully. When your heart is attentive, your entire being enters your prayer without…
— Nachman of Breslov
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Let thy carriage be such as becomes a man grave settled and attentive to that which is spoken. Contradict not,…
— George Washington
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Lord Jesus, Who in the Eucharist make your dwelling among us and become our traveling companion, sustain our Christian communities…
— Pope John Paul II
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Every man has frequent grievances which only the solicitude of friendship will discover and remedy, and which would remain for…
— Samuel Johnson
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Bottle, whose Mysterious Deep Do's ten thousand Secrets keep, With attentive Ear I wait; Ease my Mind, and speak my…
— Francois Rabelais
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One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.
— Groucho Marx
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Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Luck is the attentive photographer's best teacher.
— John Szarkowski
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