LDLawrence Durrell

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Lawrence Durrell

Life dates: 1912 AD — 1990 AD

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Quotations and sayings

01c. 1931 AD

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

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02c. 1931 AD

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

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03c. 1931 AD

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

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04c. 1931 AD

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.

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05c. 1931 AD

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

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06c. 1931 AD

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

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07c. 1931 AD

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

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08c. 1931 AD

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

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09c. 1931 AD

I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.

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10c. 1931 AD

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

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