“ But that is what islands are for; they are places where different destinies can meet and intersect in the full isolation of time. Lawrence Durrell
“ How grudging memory is, and how bitterly she clutches the raw material of her daily work. Lawrence Durrell
“ Pensaba y sufría mucho, pero le faltaba la fuerza necesaria para atreverse, primer requisito del que hace algo. Lawrence Durrell
“ Underneath an artist's preoccupations with sex, society, religion, etc. (all the staple abstractions that allow the forebrain to chatter) there is a soul tortured beyond endurance by the lack of tende… Lawrence Durrell
“ 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
“ You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect. Lawrence Durrell
“ There is nothing stranger than to love somebody who is mad, or who is intermittently so. The weight, the strain, the anxiety is a heavy load to bear – if only because among these confusional states an… Lawrence Durrell
“ And I saw her as a sad thirtieth child of Valentine that fell, not as Lucifer rebelling against God, but because she too passionately wanted to be united with him! All things in excess become sin. Lawrence Durrell
“ Yet the presence of death always refreshes experience thus--that is its function: to help us deliberate on the novelty of time. Lawrence Durrell
“ 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. They flower spontaneously ou… Lawrence Durrell
“ إن الأحداث البعيدة تكتسب وقد حولتها وغيرتها الذاكرة لمعاناً مصقولا لأنها ترى في عزلتها، مفصولة عن التفاصيل السابقة واللاحقة عن خيوط الزمن ولفافاته. إن ممثلي الأحداث يعانون أيضاً التحويل والتغير، ويغطس… Lawrence Durrell
“ It was cold in the street and I crossed to the lighted blaze of shops in Rue Fuad. In a grocer’s window I saw a small tin of olives with the name Orvieto on it, and overcome by a sudden longing to be… Lawrence Durrell
