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Lawrence Durrell - From the Aging category:
Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked. (Lawrence Durrell)
Lawrence Durrell - From the Artists category:
For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art, with all that has wounded or defeated us in daily life... not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential – the imagination. (Lawrence Durrell)
Lawrence Durrell - From the Freedom category:
I imagine, therefore I belong and am free. (Lawrence Durrell)
Lawrence Durrell - From the Gender category:
There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature. (Lawrence Durrell)
Lawrence Durrell - From the Genius category:
Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened. (Lawrence Durrell)
Lawrence Durrell - From the Health category:
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)
Lawrence Durrell - From the Invention category:
Our inventions mirror our secret wishes. (Lawrence Durrell)
Lawrence Durrell - From the Jealousy category:
It is not love that is blind, but jealousy. (Lawrence Durrell)
Lawrence Durrell - From the Journey category:
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)
Lawrence Durrell - From the Life category:
History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living. (Lawrence Durrell)
Lawrence Durrell - From the Loneliness category:
I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything. (Lawrence Durrell)
Lawrence Durrell - From the Love category:
The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time. (Lawrence Durrell)
Lawrence Durrell - From the Music category:
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness. (Lawrence Durrell)
Lawrence Durrell - From the Music category:
Music is only love looking for words. (Lawrence Durrell)
Lawrence Durrell - From the Nature category:
We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it. (Lawrence Durrell)
Lawrence Durrell - From the Satisfaction category:
Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie. (Lawrence Durrell)
Lawrence Durrell - From the Travel category:
Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection. (Lawrence Durrell)
Lawrence Durrell - From the Truth category:
Truth disappears with the telling of it. (Lawrence Durrell)
Lawrence Durrell - From the Writing category:
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)
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