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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Music is only love looking for words.

Music is only love looking for words.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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 imagine, therefore I belong and am free.

I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.

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.

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 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.