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

Quote by Lawrence Durrell

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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.

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.

Music is only love looking for words

Music is only love looking for words

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

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...

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...

Music is only love looking for words.

Music is only love looking for words.

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.

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...

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

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

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.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

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,...

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.

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....

I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.

I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.

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,...