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
Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection. – Lawrence Durrell
History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living. – Lawrence Durrell
The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time. – Lawrence Durrell
The theoretician believes in logic and believes that he despises dreams, intuition, and poetry. He does not recognize that these three fairies have only disguised themselves in order to dazzle him…. He does not know that he owes his greatest discoveries to them. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wartime Writings 1939-1944, translated from French by