Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.

Quote by Lawrence Durrell

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

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,...

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

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

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...

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...

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.

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 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.

Truth disappears with the telling of it

Truth disappears with the telling of it

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

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

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.

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.

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,...

I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.

I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.

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...

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.