Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

Quote by Lawrence Durrell

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

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.

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.

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

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

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

Truth disappears with the telling of it

Truth disappears with the telling of it

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 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....

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...

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

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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

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