You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect. 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-dayanniversarylove 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 destinypeopleart 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 hairmemorieslying Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection. Lawrence Durrell formjourneytravel Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened. Lawrence Durrell laughterhappinessmen 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 eyerealtravel We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd. Lawrence Durrell huntingreasonbelieve 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 silencepromisethinking Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me, and then show me the place where he was hanged. Lawrence Durrell show-mewonderheart A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants. Lawrence Durrell citiesloveworld Shyness has laws you can only give yourself; tragically to those who least understand. Lawrence Durrell datinglawgiving 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 oceanuniquememories 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 landscapelandchildren It's unthinkable not to love - you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin. Lawrence Durrell breakdownnervouslove Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine! Lawrence Durrell spitedesirablewine Life, the raw material, is only lived in potentia until the artist deploys it in his work. Lawrence Durrell raw-materialsmaterialsartist 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 womendegreescharity We should tackle reality in a slightly jokey way, otherwise we miss its point. Lawrence Durrell missingrealityway Music was invented to confirm human loneliness. Lawrence Durrell musiclonelyloneliness It is not love that is blind, but jealousy. Lawrence Durrell envyjealousylove
