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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
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It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.
— Lawrence Durrell
Tags: write, something, energy, you
Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.
— Lawrence Durrell
Tags: forms, rewarding, most, travel
Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
— Lawrence Durrell
Tags: like, genius, laughter, men
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
Tags: people, daily, art, life
Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.
— Lawrence Durrell
Tags: desire, rest, sickness, truth
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