Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.

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.

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,...

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

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 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...

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Music is only love looking for words.

Music is only love looking for words.

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

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...

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....

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.

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.

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...

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...

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

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