Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.
Lawrence Durrell

Music is only love looking for words.
Lawrence Durrell

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.
Lawrence Durrell

There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.
Lawrence Durrell

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.
Lawrence Durrell

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.
Lawrence Durrell

We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.
Lawrence Durrell

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.
Lawrence Durrell