We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.
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Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.Lawrence Durrell
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
For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.
Lawrence Durrell
Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.
Lawrence Durrell
It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.
Lawrence Durrell
A city becomes a world when one loves one of it's inhabitants.
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