Sorrow is implicit in love as gravitation is implicit in mass. Lawrence Durrell More Quotes by Lawrence Durrell More Quotes From Lawrence Durrell All culture corrupts, but French culture corrupts absolutely. Lawrence Durrell french-cultureculture Lovers can find nothing to say to each other that has not been said and unsaid a thousand times over. Kisses were invented to translate such nothings into wounds Lawrence Durrell unsaidkissinglovers Poetry is what happens when an anxiety meets a technique. Lawrence Durrell anxietytechniquepoetry-is after all the work of the philosophers on his soul and the doctors on his body, what can we really say we know about a man? That he is, when all is said and done, just a passage for liquids and solids, a pipe of flesh. Lawrence Durrell doctorssoulmen I see artists as a great battalion moving through paint, words, music towards cosmological interpretation. Lawrence Durrell paintartistmoving 'We live' writes Pursewarden somewhere 'lives based upon selected fictions. Our view of reality is conditioned by our position in space and time — not by our personalities as we like to think. Thus every interpretation oа reality is based upon a unique position. Two paces east or west and the whole picture is changed. Lawrence Durrell uniquewritingreality No history much? Perhaps. Only this ominous Dark beauty flowering under veils, Trapped in the spectrum of a dying style: A village like an instinct left to rust, Composed around the echo of a pistol-shot. Lawrence Durrell echoescitiesdark Truth is what most contradicts itself. Lawrence Durrell truth-istruth Truth is a woman. That is why it is enigmatic. Lawrence Durrell enigmatictruth-istruth Love joins and then divides. How else would we be growing? Lawrence Durrell dividesgrowinglove A critic is a lug-worm in the liver of literature. Lawrence Durrell wormscriticismliterature They say that if you get bored enough with calamity you can learn to laugh. Lawrence Durrell adversityboredlaughing Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure. Lawrence Durrell prohibitioncuresdesire Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off. Lawrence Durrell cuttersrichespoverty How grudging memory is, and how bitterly she clutches the raw material of her daily work. Lawrence Durrell daily-workraw-materialsmemories People only see in us the contemptible skirt-fever which rules our actions but completely miss the beauty-hunger underlying it. Lawrence Durrell fevermissingpeople I have done so many things in my life," she said to the mirror. "Evil things, perhaps. But never unattentively, never wastefully...was I wrong? Lawrence Durrell mirrorsdoneevil I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know. Lawrence Durrell tryingfunnydeath She took kisses like so many coats of paint […] how long and how vainly I searched for excuses which might make her amorality if not palatable at lest understandable. I realize now the time I wasted in this way; instead of enjoying her and turning aside from these preoccupations with the thought, ‘She is untrustworthy as she is beautiful. She takes love as plants do water, lightly, thoughtlessly. Lawrence Durrell kissingbeautifullong There is no pain compared to that of loving a woman who makes her body accessible to one and yet who is incapable of delivering her true self -- because she does not know where to find it. Lawrence Durrell painselfdoe
