Lawrence Durrell

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

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time…

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

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

I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time…

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness…

Old age is an insult. It’s like being smacked…

The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it…

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or…

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy…