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

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,...

There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her,...

There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her,...

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...

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.

Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.

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...

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...

Truth disappears with the telling of it

Truth disappears with the telling of it

I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.

I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.

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.

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.

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.

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,...

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

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

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.

When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force....

When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force....

Man can't do without God. Just like you're thirsty, you have to drink water. You...

Man can't do without God. Just like you're thirsty, you have to drink water. You...

Love is a boy, by poets styled, Then spare the rod, and spoil the child

Love is a boy, by poets styled, Then spare the rod, and spoil the child