All Lawrence Durrell Quotes
History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
Lawrence Durrell
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For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.
Lawrence Durrell
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No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
Lawrence Durrell
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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
Lawrence Durrell
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Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.
Lawrence Durrell
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Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.
Lawrence Durrell
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Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.
Lawrence Durrell
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It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.
Lawrence Durrell
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I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.
Lawrence Durrell
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Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.
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We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.
Lawrence Durrell
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