The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.

Quote by Lawrence Durrell

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

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.

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...

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 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...

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living

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 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.

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.

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.

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...

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy

I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.

I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.

Music is only love looking for words

Music is only love looking for words

Restarting the whole song over just because you missed your favorite part.

Restarting the whole song over just because you missed your favorite part.

Music is the soundtrack of your life.

Music is the soundtrack of your life.

If you don't like Louis Armstrong, you don't know how to love.

If you don't like Louis Armstrong, you don't know how to love.

I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early...

I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early...