All culture corrupts, but French culture corrupts absolutely. Lawrence Durrell More Quotes by Lawrence Durrell More Quotes From Lawrence Durrell The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time. Lawrence Durrell valentines-day anniversary love 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 destiny people art I am quite alone. I am neither happy nor unhappy; I lie suspended like a hair or a feather in the cloudy mixtures of memory. Lawrence Durrell hair memories lying Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection. Lawrence Durrell form journey travel Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened. Lawrence Durrell laughter happiness men Try and travel with the eyes of the spirit wide open, and not too much factual information. To tune in, without reverence, idly -- but with real inward attention. It is to be had for the feeling, that mysterious sense of rapport, of identity with the ground. You can extract the essence of a place once you know how. If you just get as still as a needle you'll be there. Lawrence Durrell eye real travel We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd. Lawrence Durrell hunting reason believe I have decided to leave Clea’s last letter un-answered. I no longer wish to coerce anyone, to make promises, to think of life in terms of compacts, resolutions, covenants. It will be up to Clea to interpret my silence according to her own needs and desires, to come to me if she has need or not, as the case may be. Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us? Lawrence Durrell silence promise thinking Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me, and then show me the place where he was hanged. Lawrence Durrell show-me wonder heart A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants. Lawrence Durrell cities love world Shyness has laws you can only give yourself; tragically to those who least understand. Lawrence Durrell dating law giving These are the moments which are not calculable, and cannot be assessed in words; they live on in the solution of memory, like wonderful creatures, unique of their own kind, dredged up from the floors of some unexplored ocean. Lawrence Durrell ocean unique memories 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 landscape land children It's unthinkable not to love - you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin. Lawrence Durrell breakdown nervous love Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine! Lawrence Durrell spite desirable wine Life, the raw material, is only lived in potentia until the artist deploys it in his work. Lawrence Durrell raw-materials materials artist 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 women degrees charity We should tackle reality in a slightly jokey way, otherwise we miss its point. Lawrence Durrell missing reality way Music was invented to confirm human loneliness. Lawrence Durrell music lonely loneliness It is not love that is blind, but jealousy. Lawrence Durrell envy jealousy love
