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Lawrence Durrell Quotes

Lawrence Durrell quotes about life

British Writer January 27, 1912 – November 7, 1990

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I am just a refugee from the long slow toothache of English life. It is terrible to love life so much you can hardly breathe! 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
I have decided to leave Clea’s last letter un-answered. I no longer wish to coerce anyone, to make promises, to think of life in terms of compacts, resolutions, covenants. It will be up to Clea to interpret my silence according to her own needs and desires, to come to me if she has need or not, as the case may be. Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us? Lawrence Durrell
Lawrence Durrell quote: "Art like life is an open secret."
Art like life is an open secret. Lawrence Durrell
Any concentration of the will displaces life and gives it bias in motion. Reality, he believed, was always trying to copy the imagination of man, from which it derived. Lawrence Durrell
I have done so many things in my life," she said to the mirror. "Evil things, perhaps. But never unattentively, never wastefully...was I wrong? Lawrence Durrell
Lawrence Durrell quote: "Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than..."
Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine Lawrence Durrell
Lawrence Durrell quote: "Life is like a cucumber. One minute it's in your hand, the..."
Life is like a cucumber. One minute it's in your hand, the next it's up you ass. Lawrence Durrell

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