Lawrence Durrell Short Quotes

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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

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

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

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I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

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It is the duty of every patriot to hate his country creatively.

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Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

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

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I've always believed that our inventions mirror our secret wishes.

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I've alwayd believed that our inventions mirror our secret wishes.

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We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.

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Let us define 'man' as a poet perpetually conspiring against himself.

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A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water.

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No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.

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Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?

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It only takes one match to ignite a haystack, or one remark to fire a mind.

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

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The realisation of one's own death is the point at which one becomes adult.

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Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.

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Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine!

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All artists today are expected to cultivate a little fashionable unhappiness.

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To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off.

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Brazil is bigger than Europe, wilder than Africa, and weirder than Baffin Land.

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Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.

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

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Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine

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Shyness has laws you can only give yourself; tragically to those who least understand.

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Of women, the most we can say, not being Frenchmen, is that they are burrowing animals.

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Science is the poetry of the intellect and poetry the science of the heart's affections.

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How grudging memory is, and how bitterly she clutches the raw material of her daily work.

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