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• I have decided to leave Clea’s last letter un-answered. I no longer wish to coerce anyone, to make promises, to think of life in terms of compacts, resolutions, covenants. It will be up to Clea to interpret my silence according to her own needs and desires, to come to me if she has need or not, as the case may be. Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?

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  Thinking, Silence, Promise

  Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.180, Faber & Faber

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• Gamblers and lovers really play to lose.

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  Play, Lovers, Loses

  Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.361, Faber & Faber

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• Las mejores cartas de amor de una mujer siempre se escriben al hombre al que traiciona.

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  Love, Men, Letters

  Lawrence Durrell (1991). "Clea", Penguin Group USA

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• The memory of man is as old as misfortune

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  Memories, Men, Misfortunes

  Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.344, Faber & Faber

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• Shyness has laws you can only give yourself; tragically to those who least understand.

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  Law, Giving, Dating

  Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.87, Faber & Faber

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• 'We live' writes Pursewarden somewhere 'lives based upon selected fictions. Our view of reality is conditioned by our position in space and time — not by our personalities as we like to think. Thus every interpretation oа reality is based upon a unique position. Two paces east or west and the whole picture is changed.

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  Writing, Unique, Reality

  "The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea".

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• Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie.

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  Lying, Punishment, Guilt

  Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.110, Faber & Faber

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• The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you.

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  Art, Impact, Doe

  Lawrence Durrell (1952). “Key to modern poetry”

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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.

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  Travel, Artist, Journey

  Lawrence Durrell (2011). "Bitter Lemons of Cyprus", p.6, Faber & Faber.

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• It's unthinkable not to love - you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

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  Love, Nervous, Breakdown

  The Observer Interview, 1990.

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• Truth is a matter of direct apprehension-you can't climb a ladder of mental concepts to it.

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  Truth, Ladders, Matter

  Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.285, Faber & Faber

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• All culture corrupts, but French culture corrupts absolutely.

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  French Culture, Culture

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• Life, the raw material, is only lived in potentia until the artist deploys it in his work.

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  Artist, Raw Materials, Materials

  Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.58, Faber & Faber

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• To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger.

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  Reality, Danger, Equal

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

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  Funny, Death, Trying

  The Sunday Times Interview, 1988.

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• The artist's work constitutes the only satisfactory relationship he can have with his fellow men since he seeks his real friends among the dead and the unborn.

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  Real, Artist, Men

  Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.411, Faber & Faber

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• To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off.

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  Fall, Writing, Trying

  Lawrence Durrell, Earl G. Ingersoll (1998). “Lawrence Durrell: Conversations”, p.29, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• We should tackle reality in a slightly jokey way, otherwise we miss its point.

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  Reality, Missing, Way

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• Comedians are the nearest to suicide.

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  Suicide, Comedian

  Lawrence Durrell (2015). “The Avignon Quintet: Monsieur, Livia, Constance, Sebastian and Quinx”, p.199, Faber & Faber

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• The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.

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  Women, Degrees, Charity

  The Observer Interview, 1990.

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• Art—the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind the sackcloth of reality, forced out by the pain of human memory.

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  Art, Pain, Memories

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• But I love to feel events overlapping each other, crawling over one another like wet crabs in a basket

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  Events, Baskets, Crabs

  1958 Balthazar, pt.1.

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• 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?

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  Mirrors, Evil, Done

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• Con la llegada de la noche, volví a ser consciente de la soledad y del tiempo, esos dos compañeros sin los cuales ningún viaje puede aportarnos nada.

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  Loneliness, Being Alone, Night

  Lawrence Durrell (2011). “Bitter Lemons of Cyprus”, p.9, Faber & Faber

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• People only see in us the contemptible skirt-fever which rules our actions but completely miss the beauty-hunger underlying it.

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  People, Missing, Fever

  Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.157, Faber & Faber

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