Lawrence Durrell - Love Quotes

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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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I think often, and never without a certain fear of Nessim's love for Justine. [-] It coloured his unhappiness with a kind of ecstasy [-] Yet one touch of humour would have saved him from such dreadful comprehensive suffering.

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It's unthinkable not to love — you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

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Sorrow is implicit in love as gravitation is implicit in mass.

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Odd, isn't it? He really was the right man for her in a sort of way; but then as you know, it is a law of love that the so-called 'right' person always comes to soon or too late.

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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.

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

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That house with its remoteness and the islands going down like soft gongs all the time into the amazing blue, and I shall never, never ever forget a youth spent there, discovered by accident. It was pure gold. But then of course... youth does mean happiness, it does mean love, and that's something you can't get over.

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A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.

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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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She took kisses like so many coats of paint […] how long and how vainly I searched for excuses which might make her amorality if not palatable at lest understandable. I realize now the time I wasted in this way; instead of enjoying her and turning aside from these preoccupations with the thought, 'She is untrustworthy as she is beautiful. She takes love as plants do water, lightly, thoughtlessly.

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He had at last discovered that love had no pith in it, and that the projection of one own's feelings upon the images of a beloved was in the long run, an act of self-mutilation.

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I am just a refugee from the long slow toothache of English life. It is terrible to love life so much you can hardly breathe!

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Love is like trench warfare — you cannot see the enemy, but you know he is there and that it is wiser to keep your head down.

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A diary is the last place to go if you wish to seek the truth about a person. Nobody dares to make the final confession to themselves on paper: or at least, not about love.

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

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I remember Nessim once saying [-] that Alexandria was the great winepress of love; those who emerged from it were the sick men, the solitaries, the prophets-I mean all who have been deeply wounded in their sex.

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