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Lawrence Durrell

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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


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


— Lawrence Durrell


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Truth disappears with the telling of it.


— Lawrence Durrell


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We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.


— Lawrence Durrell


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


— Lawrence Durrell


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Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.


— Lawrence Durrell


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Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.


— Lawrence Durrell


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


— Lawrence Durrell


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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


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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


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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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