Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Quote by Lawrence Durrell

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them,...

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them,...

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

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

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

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

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

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

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

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

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

We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the...

We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the...

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

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

The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it...

The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it...

It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel....

It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel....

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to...

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to...

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

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

Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than...

Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than...

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

A city becomes a world when one loves one of it's inhabitants.

A city becomes a world when one loves one of it's inhabitants.

Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.

Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.

Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.

Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.

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

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

I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time...

I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time...