"What are stars but points in the body……" — Lawrence Durrell

"What are stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing?"

— 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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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure… — Aristotle
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the… — M H Abrams
Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail… — Johann Arndt
Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds… — Mary Astell
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa… — Chinua Achebe
Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do… — John James Audubon
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All… — Saint Augustine

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