Lawrence Durrell słynne cytaty
Lawrence Durrell: Cytaty po angielsku
“Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?”
Źródło: Justine
“We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.”
Źródło: Justine
“Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me and then show me the place where he was hanged.”
Wariant: Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me, and then show me the place where he was hanged.
Źródło: Justine
“Art like life is an open secret.”
Źródło: The Alexandria Quartet
“Sorrow is implicit in love as gravitation is implicit in mass.”
Źródło: Monsieur
“A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.”
The Alexandria Quartet (1957–1960), Justine (1957)
“Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.”
The Alexandria Quartet (1957–1960), Clea (1960)
“A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants.”
Źródło: The Alexandria Quartet (1957–1960), Justine (1957)
“Gamblers and lovers really play to lose.”
Źródło: The Alexandria Quartet
“Science is the poetry of the intellect and poetry the science of the heart's affections.”
Źródło: The Alexandria Quartet
The Avignon Quintet (1974–1985), Monsieur (1974)
Kontekst: 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.
Źródło: The Alexandria Quartet (1957–1960), Mountolive (1958), VIII
Źródło: The Alexandria Quartet (1957–1960), Mountolive (1958), I
Źródło: The Alexandria Quartet (1957–1960), Mountolive (1958), IV