“In French the truth of passion stood up coldly and cruelly to the scrutiny of human experience. In his own curious phrase he [Pursewarden] had always qualified it as 'an unsniggerable language.”

—  Lawrence Durrell , The Alexandria Quartet

Source: The Alexandria Quartet (1957–1960), Mountolive (1958), VIII

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