Famous Lawrence Durrell Quotations

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"I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know."
by Lawrence Durrell
"The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time."
by Lawrence George Durrell
"There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination."
by Lawrence George Durrell
"We must not just be in the world and above the world, but also of the world. To love it for what it is... is the only task. Avoid it and you are lost. Loose yourself in it, and you are free."
by Henry Miller
"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."
by Lawrence Durrell
"A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying."
by Lawrence Durrell
"It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin."
by Lawrence Durrell
"Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist."
by Lawrence Durrell
"It's only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdy that you can get tenderness."
by Lawrence Durrell


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