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...

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

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

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

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...

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

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

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.

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.

Music is only love looking for words.

Music is only love looking for words.

Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.

Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.

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...

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...

There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her,...

There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her,...

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.

I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.

Truth disappears with the telling of it

Truth disappears with the telling of it

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living

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....

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.

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.