"To be the equal of reality you must……" — Lawrence Durrell

"To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger."

— Lawrence Durrell

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93 Quotes by Lawrence Durrell

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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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The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently;… — Aristotle
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing. — Nancy Astor
Crying wolf is a real danger. — David Attenborough
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. — Marcus Aurelius
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern. — Lord Acton
To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger. — James A. Baldwin
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man… — John Adams
When you're young, you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a grownup. And I think you probably… — Drew Barrymore
I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I… — Clara Barton
In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us. — Charles Baudelaire
The most dangerous people are the ignorant. — Henry Ward Beecher
It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the… — Kate Adie

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