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“Love is like trench warfare - you cannot see the enemy, but you know he is there and that it is wiser to keep your head down.”

Lawrence Durrell book Balthazar

Source: Balthazar

“Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.”

Lawrence Durrell The Alexandria Quartet

The Alexandria Quartet (1957–1960), Clea (1960)

“A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.”

Lawrence Durrell The Alexandria Quartet

The Alexandria Quartet (1957–1960), Justine (1957)

“Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me and then show me the place where he was hanged.”

Lawrence Durrell book Justine

Variant: Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me, and then show me the place where he was hanged.
Source: Justine

“Love is poetry plus biology.”

Lawrence Durrell

“Sorrow is implicit in love as gravitation is implicit in mass.”

Lawrence Durrell book Monsieur

Source: Monsieur

“Art like life is an open secret.”

Lawrence Durrell The Alexandria Quartet

Source: The Alexandria Quartet

“The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you…”

Lawrence Durrell

“Music is only love looking for words.”

Lawrence Durrell

“There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.”

Lawrence Durrell book Justine

Source: The Alexandria Quartet (1957–1960), Justine (1957)

“I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced.”

Lawrence Durrell

“A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants.”

Lawrence Durrell book Justine

Source: The Alexandria Quartet (1957–1960), Justine (1957)

“I am quite alone. I am neither happy nor unhappy; I lie suspended like a hair or a feather in the cloudy mixtures of memory.”

Lawrence Durrell book Justine

Source: Justine

“There is no pain compared to that of loving a woman who makes her body accessible to one and yet who is incapable of delivering her true self -- because she does not know where to find it.”

Lawrence Durrell

“These are the moments which are not calculable, and cannot be assessed in words; they live on in the solution of memory, like wonderful creatures, unique of their own kind, dredged up from the floors of some unexplored ocean.”

Lawrence Durrell book Justine

Source: Justine

“Gamblers and lovers really play to lose.”

Lawrence Durrell The Alexandria Quartet

Source: The Alexandria Quartet

“Odd, isn't it? He really was the right man for her in a sort of way; but then as you know, it is a law of love that the so-called 'right' person always comes to soon or too late.”

Lawrence Durrell book Balthazar

Source: Balthazar

“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