Quotes by Lawrence Durrell

• Music is only love looking for words.
• Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.
• We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.
• Truth disappears with the telling of it.
• Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.
• The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
• 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.
• No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
• Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
• 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.
• A city becomes a world when one loves one of it's inhabitants.
• Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
• A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.
• Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.
• Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.
• History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
• It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.
• I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.
• I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.
• It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.