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Quotes from Lawrence Durrell

But I love to feel events overlapping each other, crawling over one another like wet crabs in a basket
~ Lawrence Durrell
Love joins and then divides. How else would we be growing?
~ Lawrence Durrell
History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
~ Lawrence Durrell
The sense of truth no matter how subjective is necessary for the experience of beauty.
~ Lawrence Durrell
Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.
~ Lawrence Durrell
A diary is the last place to go if you wish to seek the truth about a person. Nobody dares to make the final confession to themselves on paper: or at least, not about love.
~ Lawrence Durrell
I am just a refugee from the long slow toothache of English life. It is terrible to love life so much you can hardly breathe!
~ Lawrence Durrell
Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.
~ Lawrence Durrell
Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
~ Lawrence Durrell
Truth disappears with the telling of it.
~ Lawrence Durrell
Love is poetry plus biology.
~ Lawrence Durrell
No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
~ Lawrence Durrell
It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.
~ Lawrence Durrell
A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.
~ Lawrence Durrell
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
~ Lawrence Durrell
Every man is made of clay and diamond, and no woman can nourish both.
~ Lawrence Durrell
Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.
~ Lawrence Durrell
It's only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdy that you can get tenderness.
~ Lawrence Durrell
Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will --whatever we may think.
~ Lawrence Durrell
It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.
~ Lawrence Durrell
A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.
~ Lawrence Durrell
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
~ Lawrence Durrell
The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.
~ Lawrence Durrell
The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
~ Lawrence Durrell