Music is only love looking for words.

Quote by Lawrence Durrell

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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,...

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

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...

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.

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...

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.

Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.

Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.

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 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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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....

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.