Lawrence Durrell
Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
-Lawrence Durrell
age
History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
-Lawrence Durrell
history
For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.
-Lawrence Durrell
imagination
It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.
-Lawrence Durrell
jealousy
The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
-Lawrence Durrell
love
It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.
-Lawrence Durrell
love
Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
-Lawrence Durrell
men
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
-Lawrence Durrell
music
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
time
The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
-Lawrence Durrell
time
Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.
-Lawrence Durrell
travel
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
women
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