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

Quote by Lawrence Durrell

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For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or...

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or...

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...

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...

Music is only love looking for words

Music is only love looking for words

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.

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.

Music is only love looking for words.

Music is only love looking for words.

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...

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.

Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.

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

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

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

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

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

A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to...

A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to...

Traveling makes a man wiser, but less happy.

Traveling makes a man wiser, but less happy.

Travel by sea nearly approximates the bliss of babyhood. They feed you, rock you gently...

Travel by sea nearly approximates the bliss of babyhood. They feed you, rock you gently...