Lawrence Durrell: Citations en anglais
“We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.”
Lawrence Durrell livre Justine
Source: Justine
“Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me and then show me the place where he was hanged.”
Lawrence Durrell livre Justine
Variante: Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me, and then show me the place where he was hanged.
Source: Justine
“Art like life is an open secret.”
Lawrence Durrell The Alexandria Quartet
Source: The Alexandria Quartet
“Sorrow is implicit in love as gravitation is implicit in mass.”
Lawrence Durrell livre Monsieur
Source: Monsieur
“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)
“Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.”
Lawrence Durrell The Alexandria Quartet
The Alexandria Quartet (1957–1960), Clea (1960)
Lawrence Durrell livre Justine
Source: The Alexandria Quartet (1957–1960), Justine (1957)
“A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants.”
Lawrence Durrell livre Justine
Source: The Alexandria Quartet (1957–1960), Justine (1957)
Lawrence Durrell livre Justine
Source: Justine
“Gamblers and lovers really play to lose.”
Lawrence Durrell The Alexandria Quartet
Source: The Alexandria Quartet
“Science is the poetry of the intellect and poetry the science of the heart's affections.”
Lawrence Durrell The Alexandria Quartet
Source: The Alexandria Quartet
Lawrence Durrell The Avignon Quintet
The Avignon Quintet (1974–1985), Monsieur (1974)
Contexte: The art of prose governed by syncopated thinking; for thoughts curdle in the heart if not expressed. An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left.
Lawrence Durrell The Alexandria Quartet
Source: The Alexandria Quartet (1957–1960), Mountolive (1958), VIII
Lawrence Durrell The Alexandria Quartet
The Alexandria Quartet (1957–1960), Justine (1957)
Lawrence Durrell The Alexandria Quartet
Source: The Alexandria Quartet (1957–1960), Mountolive (1958), I
Lawrence Durrell The Alexandria Quartet
Source: The Alexandria Quartet (1957–1960), Mountolive (1958), IV
Lawrence Durrell The Alexandria Quartet
The Alexandria Quartet (1957–1960), Justine (1957)
