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

Quote by Lawrence Durrell

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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...

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.

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...

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

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

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy

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,...

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...

Truth disappears with the telling of it

Truth disappears with the telling of it

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.

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living

Music is only love looking for words

Music is only love looking for words

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.

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

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

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.

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....

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...

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.

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

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