Lawrence Durrell - Woman 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.

Lawrence Durrell

Subconsciously he knew too, that the oriental woman is not a sensualist in the European sense; there is nothing mawkish in her constitution. Her true obsessions are power, politics and possessions - however much she might deny it. The sex ticks on in the mind, but its motions are warmed by the kinetic brutalities of money.

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

Lawrence Durrell

There is no pain compared to that of loving a woman who makes her body accessible to one and yet who is incapable of delivering her true self — because she does not know where to find it.

Lawrence Durrell