Lawrence George Durrell Famous Quotes



There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.


Lawrence George Durrell Quotations






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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
Edgar Allan Poe

One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.
Tshunka Witko

It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
Rebecca West

"To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him."
Johann von Goethe

"The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel."
James Thurber

"The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather to what he does not say."
Kahlil Gibran

There is no squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.
Christopher Darlington Morley

"The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time."
George Bernard Shaw

"I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult.... I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking."
Og Mandino

Nothing fails like success.
Gerald Nachman