I have been thinking about the girl I met last night in the mirror: dark on the marble-ivory white: glossy black hair: deep suspiring eyes in which one's glances sink because they are nervous, curious, turned to sexual curiosity. (Lawrence Durrell, "The Alexandria Quartet")
A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying. (Lawrence Durrell)
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness. (Lawrence Durrell)
Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection. (Lawrence Durrell)
It's only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness. (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)
History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living. (Lawrence Durrell)
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