It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.

Quote by Lawrence Durrell

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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.

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...

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.

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...

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,...

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

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

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy

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.

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'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.

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.

Music is only love looking for words

Music is only love looking for words

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.

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.

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

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

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...