Author: Lawrence Durrell

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History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

- Lawrence Durrell

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

- Lawrence Durrell

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.

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

A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.

A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.

- Lawrence Durrell

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.

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.

- Lawrence Durrell

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.

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

There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.

There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.

- Lawrence Durrell

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

- Lawrence Durrell

Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.

Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.

- Lawrence Durrell

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