I have done so many things in my life," she said to the mirror. "Evil things, perhaps. But never unattentively, never wastefully...was I wrong?
Lawrence DurrellPeople only see in us the contemptible skirt-fever which rules our actions but completely miss the beauty-hunger underlying it.
Lawrence DurrellStichwörter: beauty
I am just a refugee from the long slow toothache of English life. It is terrible to love life so much you can hardly breathe!
Lawrence DurrellVery few people realise that sex is a psychic and not a physical act. The clumsy coupling of human beings is simply a biological paraphrase of this truth - a primitive method of introducing minds to each other, engaging them. But most people are stuck in the physical aspect, unaware of the poetic rapport which it so clumsily tries to teach.
Lawrence DurrellLove is like trench warfare - you cannot see the enemy, but you know he is there and that it is wiser to keep your head down.
Lawrence DurrellOdd, isn't it? He really was the right man for her in a sort of way; but then as you know, it is a law of love that the so-called 'right' person always comes to soon or too late.
Lawrence DurrellFrost in January minus 20 for a week. Dead birds frozen on the branch—they fall with the first thaw like ripe fruit—death-ripened. We shall all end like them—just a stain in the snow.
Lawrence DurrellSorrow is implicit in love as gravitation is implicit in mass.
Lawrence DurrellStichwörter: love
You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect.
Lawrence DurrellStichwörter: happiness pleasure tragedy
What do you believe? You never say anything. At the most you sometimes laugh.
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