“Subconsciously he knew too, that the oriental woman is not a sensualist in the European sense; there is nothing mawkish in her constitution. Her true obsessions are power, politics and possessions - however much she might deny it. The sex ticks on in the mind, but its motions are warmed by the kinetic brutalities of money.”

— Lawrence Durrell , The Alexandria Quartet

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

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

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