"Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell……" — Lawrence Durrell
"Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me, and then show me the place where he was hanged."
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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 Hanged Quotes
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
— Noam Chomsky
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The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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I have a most peaceable disposition. My desires are for a modest hut, a thatched roof, but a good bed,…
— Heinrich Heine
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No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not…
— Michel de Montaigne
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If the prisoner should ask the judge whether he would be content to be hanged, were he in his case,…
— John Selden
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I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
— Moliere
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I am sorry to see you here, but if you had fought like a man, you needn't be hanged like…
— Anne Bonny
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Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.
— George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
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Ordered that of the Indians and Half-breeds sentenced to be hanged by the military commission, composed of Colonel Crooks, Lt.…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Against the vast majority of my countrymen, even at this moment, in the name of humanity and civilization, I protest…
— Bertrand Russell
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I think that Lee should have been hanged. It was all the worse that he was a good man and…
— Henry Adams
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Karl Marx once said, 'The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.' Marx was…
— Amy Ridenour
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