“Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.” — Lawrence Durrell, Bitter Lemons
Tag: Lawrence Durrell
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“Books everywhere piled up in heaps, the rare companions of a solitude not self-imposed but sought.” — Lawrence Durrell, Bitter Lemons
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“Underneath all his preoccupations with sex, society, religion, etc. (all the staple abstractions that allow the forebrain to chatter) there is, quite simply, a man tortured beyond endurance by the lack of tenderness in the world.” — Lawrence Durrell, The Alexandria Quartet
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“We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.” — Lawrence Durrell, Justine
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“Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.” — Lawrence Durrell, Clea
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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, Clea
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“You see it all the time … love lavished on absolute fools. Love’s a charity ward, you know.” — Lawrence Durrell, “Durrell on Love and Four-Letter Words,” The Observer (1990-11-11)
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“Journeys, like artists, are born and not made.” — Lawrence Durrell, Bitter Lemons
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