A womans best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying. – 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
The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time. – Lawrence Durrell
Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened. – Lawrence Durrell
In a mans letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his breast, whatever passes within him is shown undisguised in its natural process. Nothing is inverted, nothing distorted, you see systems in their elements, you discover actions in their motives. – Samuel Johnson