"These are the moments which are not calculable,……" — Lawrence Durrell
"These are the moments which are not calculable, and cannot be assessed in words; they live on in the solution of memory, like wonderful creatures, unique of their own kind, dredged up from the floors of some unexplored ocean."
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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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To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-ridden, regulated, penned up, indoctrinated, preached at, checked, appraised,…
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Imagine how dull life would be if variables assessed for admission to a graduate program really did predict who would…
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So great are the psychological restistances to war in modern nations, that every war must appear to be a war…
— Harold Lasswell
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It takes the passage of time before an image of a commonplace subject can be assessed. The great difficulty of…
— George A Tice
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Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse the rulers,…
— Henry Knox
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Writing is for stories to be read, books to be published, poems to be recited, plays to be acted, songs…
— Frank Smith
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The early Christians' opponents all accepted that Jesus existed, taught, had disciples, worked miracles, and was put to death on…
— Graham Stanton
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Today nearly all historians, whether Christians or not, accept that Jesus existed and that the Gospels contain plenty of valuable…
— Graham Stanton
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Amazingly, 85 percent of prescribed standard medical treatments across the board lack scientific validation, according to the New York Times.…
— Kenny Ausubel
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Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves
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Vice-President Ford, possibly preparing for higher duties, assessed Kissinger's part in the Syrian-Israeli troop disengagement as "the great diplomatic triumph…
— Edwin Newman
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To my knowledge, there have been no studies done on the effects of antidepressants and altitude. But it is hugely…
— Dale Archer
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