British - Writer | February 27, 1912 - November 7, 1990
Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.
Lawrence Durrell
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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
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I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.
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It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.
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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.
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A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.
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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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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.
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Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.
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Music is only love looking for words.
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Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
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