Lawrence Durrell, Justine
"It is hard to fight with one's heart's desires; whatever it wishes to get, it purchases at the cost of the soul."
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"It is hard to fight with one's heart's desires; whatever it wishes to get, it purchases at the cost of the soul."
Lawrence Durrell, Justine
"Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?"
Lawrence Durrell, Justine
"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 Durrell, Justine
"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 do the ordinary people, but to fulfill it in its true potential - the imagination."
Lawrence Durrell, Justine
"Artโthe 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."
Lawrence Durrell, Justine
"Underneath an artist's preoccupations with sex, society, religion, etc. (all the staple abstractions that allow the forebrain to chatter) there is a soul tortured beyond endurance by the lack of tenderness in the world."
Lawrence Durrell, Justine
"People only see in us the contemptible skirt-fever which rules our actions but completely miss the beauty-hunger underlying it."
Lawrence Durrell, Justine
"I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural."
Lawrence Durrell, Justine
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