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

Quote by Lawrence Durrell

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

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

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

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

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy

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...

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.

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.

Music is only love looking for words.

Music is only love looking for words.

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,...

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

I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.

I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.

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,...

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.

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.

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.

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

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