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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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...

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.

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,...

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

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

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.

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...

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

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

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.

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

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

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...

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.

I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.

I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.

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....

Music is only love looking for words

Music is only love looking for words

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy

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.

Even if I use sweet phrases in this description, I cannot even be sure that...

Even if I use sweet phrases in this description, I cannot even be sure that...

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for...

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for...