“Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will–whatever we may think.”
Lawrence Durrell
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“Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.”
Lawrence Durrell
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“I’m trying to die correctly, but it’s very difficult, you know.”
Lawrence Durrell
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“Truth disappears with the telling of it.”
Lawrence Durrell
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“No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.”
Lawrence Durrell
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“Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.”
Lawrence Durrell
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Patriotism
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“Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.”
Lawrence Durrell
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“Music is only love looking for words.”
Lawrence Durrell
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“The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.”
Lawrence Durrell
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“A woman’s best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.”
Lawrence Durrell
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“Old age is an insult. It’s like being smacked.”
Lawrence Durrell
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Age
