Lawrence Durrell - City Quotes

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I return link by link along the iron chains of memory to the city which we inhabited so briefly together: the city which used us as its flora-precipitated in us conflicts which were hers and which we mistook for our own: beloved Alexandria!

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A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants.

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I felt once more the strange equivocal power of the city—its flat alluvial landscape and exhausted airs... Alexandria; which is neither Greek, Syrian nor Egyptian, but a hybrid: a joint.

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