"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
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"Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection."
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"The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time."
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"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."
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"Music was invented to confirm human loneliness."
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"Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened."
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"In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied."
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