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Lawrence Durrell

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People only see in us the contemptible skirt-fever which rules our actions but completely miss the beauty-hunger underlying it.


— Lawrence Durrell


#beauty

To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger.


— Lawrence Durrell


#equality

I have done so many things in my life," she said to the mirror. "Evil things, perhaps. But never unattentively, never wastefully...was I wrong?


— Lawrence Durrell


#life #life

Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.


— Lawrence Durrell


#mirror #our #secret #wishes

We should tackle reality in a slightly jokey way, otherwise we miss its point.


— Lawrence Durrell


#reality #life

I love the French edition with its uncut pages. I would not want a reader too lazy to use a knife on me.


— Lawrence Durrell


#knife #uncut #love

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.


— Lawrence Durrell


#born #circumstances #contribute #determined #differing

No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.


— Lawrence Durrell


#being #go #into #long #rebel

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.


— Lawrence Durrell


#being #insult #like #old #old age

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.


— Lawrence Durrell


#blind #love






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Did you know about Lawrence Durrell?

It has been posthumously suggested that Durrell never had British citizenship though more accurately he became defined as a non-patrial in 1968 due to the amendment to the Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1962. His first school was St.

It has been posthumously suggested that Durrell never had British citizenship though more accurately he became defined as a non-patrial in 1968 due to the amendment to the Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1962. His most famous work is the tetralogy the Alexandria Quartet. Hence he was denied the right to enter or settle in Britain under new laws and had to apply for a visa for each entry.

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