"Truth is a woman. That is why it…" — Lawrence Durrell
"Truth is a woman. That is why it is enigmatic."
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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!
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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 Enigmatic Quotes
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one of 44 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Jesus almost never talked in terms of explaining. He was always using enigmatic stories and difficult metaphors. He was always…
— Eugene H. Peterson
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The New York Times' was enigmatic: 'Some unimaginable gravitational force is pulling our entire galaxy in the opposite direction.' End…
— Dwight Schultz
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Kate Bernheimer's fiction offers a unique and delicate gift, the tempting mirage of a grace that constantly escapes. The Complete…
— Lydia Millet
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Reading, therefore, is a co-production between writer and reader. The simplicity of this tool is astounding. So little, yet out…
— Ben Okri
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Wolf in White Van is beautiful, enigmatic, and sad, and like every other brilliant thing John Darnielle has ever done,…
— J. Robert Lennon
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Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded…
— Michel de Certeau
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Sometimes I think I am going mad. I live for days in the mystery and tears of things so that…
— W.N.P. Barbellion
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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but…
— Virginia Woolf
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Herschel Grynszpan's life was enigmatic, elusive and tragic. The traces he left on the historical record are just sufficient to…
— Janette Turner Hospital
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A tree that can fill the span of a man's arms grows from a downy tip; A terrace nine stories…
— Laozi
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What passes for love is imperfect knowledge. Not knowing, initially, allows faithlessness to dress up as its opposite; casts the…
— Nick Laird
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Vampires are so old that they don't need to impress anyone anymore. They're comfortable in their own skin. It's this…
— Stephen Moyer
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