Lawrence Durrell was a famous Writer from United Kingdom, who lived between January 27, 1912 and November 7, 1990. She became 78 years old.
Zodiac:
She is born under the zodiac aquarius, who is known for Knowledge, Humanitarian, Serious, Insightful, Duplicitous.
Our collection contains 25 quotes who is written / told by Lawrence, under the main topics: Travel - Men - Women.
"Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think"
"Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie"
"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"
"Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist"
"A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying"
"A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants"
"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"
"It is not love that is blind, but jealousy"
"I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know"
"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"
"History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living"
"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"
"There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature"
"The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time"
"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"
"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"
"Our inventions mirror our secret wishes"
"Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked"
"No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat"
"Music was invented to confirm human loneliness"
"Music is only love looking for words"
"Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened"
