Lawrence Durrell - Human Quotes

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Lawrence Durrell

Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me, and then show me the place where he was hanged.

Lawrence Durrell

His profession [diplomacy] — offered him something like a long Jesuitical training in self-deception which enabled him to present an ever more highly polished surface to the world without deepening his human experience [-] for he lived surrounded by his ambitious and sycophantic fellows who taught him only how to excel in forms of address, and the elaborate kindnesses which, in pleasing, pave the way to advancement.

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The confluent smallpox - invented perhaps as the cruellest remedy for human vanity

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Very few people realise that sex is a psychic and not a physical act. The clumsy coupling of human beings is simply a biological paraphrase of this truth - a primitive method of introducing minds to each other, engaging them. But most people are stuck in the physical aspect, unaware of the poetic rapport which it so clumsily tries to teach.

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In French the truth of passion stood up coldly and cruelly to the scrutiny of human experience. In his own curious phrase he [Pursewarden] had always qualified it as 'an unsniggerable language'.

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