Quotes about Lawrence Durrell

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

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No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

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Music is only love looking for words.

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Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.

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Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them,...

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It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel....

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I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

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I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.

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I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time...

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

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Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.

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