Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist. Lawrence Durrell More Quotes by Lawrence Durrell More Quotes From Lawrence Durrell Love is like trench warfare - you cannot see the enemy, but you know he is there and that it is wiser to keep your head down. Lawrence Durrell warfarelove-isenemy Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie. Lawrence Durrell punishmentguiltlying All artists today are expected to cultivate a little fashionable unhappiness. Lawrence Durrell artistlittlestoday Sorrow is implicit in love as gravitation is implicit in mass. Lawrence Durrell gravitationmasssorrow Of women, the most we can say, not being Frenchmen, is that they are burrowing animals. Lawrence Durrell burrowingwomenanimal It's only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdy that you can get tenderness. Lawrence Durrell There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature. Lawrence Durrell I imagine, therefore I belong and am free. Lawrence Durrell belongfreeimagineimagination
