Truth disappears with the telling of it.

- Lawrence Durrell

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

- Lawrence Durrell

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

- Lawrence Durrell

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.

- Lawrence Durrell

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

- 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

Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.

- Lawrence Durrell

Music is only love looking for words.

- Lawrence Durrell

I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.

- Lawrence Durrell