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

Quote by Lawrence Durrell

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History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Music is only love looking for words.

Music is only love looking for words.

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...

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.

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,...

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...

I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.

I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.

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...

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...

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.

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.

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.

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

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.

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.

Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.

Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.

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

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

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.