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

Quote by Lawrence Durrell

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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.

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

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

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy

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 imagine, therefore I belong and am free.

I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.

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,...

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...

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...

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.

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

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,...

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...

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

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

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

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

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

Music is only love looking for words.

Music is only love looking for words.

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....