Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other. Lawrence Durrell Read Quote
No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat. Lawrence Durrell Read Quote
A woman’s best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying. Lawrence Durrell Read Quote
Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist. Lawrence Durrell Read Quote
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. Lawrence Durrell Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie. Lawrence Durrell Read Quote
