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 DurrellA city becomes a world when one loves one of it's inhabitants.
Lawrence DurrellI imagine, therefore I belong and am free.
Lawrence DurrellMusic is only love looking for words.
Lawrence DurrellA woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.
Lawrence DurrellI'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.
Lawrence DurrellIt is not love that is blind, but jealousy.
Lawrence DurrellLike all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
Lawrence DurrellIt 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 DurrellMusic was invented to confirm human loneliness.
Lawrence DurrellOld age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
Lawrence DurrellThe richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
Lawrence DurrellJourneys, 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 DurrellEveryone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.
Lawrence Durrell
