I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.
Lawrence DurrellAn idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left.
Lawrence DurrellIt’s only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness.
Lawrence DurrellVery few people realise that sex is a psychic and not a physical act. The clumsy coupling of human beings is simply a biological paraphrase of this truth - a primitive method of introducing minds to each other, engaging them. But most people are stuck in the physical aspect, unaware of the poetic rapport which it so clumsily tries to teach.
Lawrence Durrell