Lawrence Durrell Quotes

• History is the endless repetition of the wrong way of living, and it’ll start again tomorrow, if it’s moved from here today.

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• Poggio’s, where people go to watch each other watch each other.

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• I love to feel events overlapping each other, crawling over one another like wet crabs in a basket.

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• Art like life is an open secret.

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• You see, nothing matters except pleasure – which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect.

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• We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.

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• Truth disappears with the telling of it.

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• There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.

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• The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

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• 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.

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• Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.

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• Old age is an insult. It’s like being smacked.

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• No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.

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• Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

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• Music is only love looking for words.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

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• I’m trying to die correctly, but it’s very difficult, you know.

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• I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.

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Lawrence Durrell (30)

Birth:	27th February, 1912
Death:	7th November, 1990
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Dramatist, Novelist, Poet

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