“Lovers can find nothing to say to each other that has not been said and unsaid a thousand times over. Kisses were invented to translate such nothings into wounds”

—  Lawrence Durrell , The Alexandria Quartet

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

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British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer 1912–1990

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