Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie. Lawrence Durrell More Quotes by Lawrence Durrell More Quotes From Lawrence Durrell He thought and suffered a good deal but he lacked the resolution to dare--the first requisite of a practitioner. Lawrence Durrell resolutiondarefirsts What are stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing? Lawrence Durrell starsbodyhealing Somewhere in the heart of experience there is an order and a coherence which we might purprise if we were attentive enough, loving enough, or patient enough. Lawrence Durrell heartmightorder The steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said "Your stay with us is so brief, let us not be reminded of the flight of the hours." Lawrence Durrell flightemotionlanguage I have been thinking about the girl I met last night in the mirror: dark on the marble-ivory white: glossy black hair: deep suspiring eyes in which one's glances sink because they are nervous, curious, turned to sexual curiosity. Lawrence Durrell girleyedark Science is the poetry of the intellect and poetry the science of the heart's affections. Lawrence Durrell intellectaffectionheart Gamblers and lovers really play to lose. Lawrence Durrell losesloversplay …I once found a list of diseases as yet unclassified by medical science, and among these there occurred the word Islomania, which was described as a rare but by no means unknown affliction of spirit. There are people…who find islands somehow irresistible. The mere knowledge that they are on an island, a little world surrounded by the sea, fills them with an indescribable intoxication. These born “islomanes”…are direct descendents of the Atlanteans Lawrence Durrell seaislandsmean I am just a refugee from the long slow toothache of English life. It is terrible to love life so much you can hardly breathe! Lawrence Durrell love-lifebreathelong The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values. Lawrence Durrell audienceemotionart An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left. Lawrence Durrell branchesbirdideas Truth disappears with the telling of it. Lawrence Durrell disappeartelling-the-truthtruth No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat. Lawrence Durrell rebelgoes-onlong 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 bearsdesirefiction I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural. Lawrence Durrell idlenessapproachsecret Whatever the heart desires, it purchases at the cost of soul Lawrence Durrell souldesireheart The loved object is simply one that has shared an experience at the same moment of time, narcissistically; and the desire to be near the beloved object is at first not due to the idea of possessing it, but simply to let the two experiences compare themselves, like reflections in different mirrors. All this may precede the first look, kiss, or touch; precede ambition, pride, or envy; precede the first declarations which mark the turning point—for from here love degenerates into habit, possession, and back to loneliness. Lawrence Durrell kissinglonelinessambition You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect. Lawrence Durrell pleasurematteropposites Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were. Lawrence Durrell pillarssquaresair The realisation of one's own death is the point at which one becomes adult. Lawrence Durrell realisationadults
