Lawrence Durrell
How grudging memory is, and how bitterly she clutches the raw material of her daily work.Collection: Memories
Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off.Collection: Riches
But I love to feel events overlapping each other, crawling over one another like wet crabs in a basketCollection: Events
after all the work of the philosophers on his soul and the doctors on his body, what can we really say we know about a man? That he is, when all is said and done, just a passage for liquids and solids, a pipe of flesh.Collection: Men
Sorrow is implicit in love as gravitation is implicit in mass.Collection: Sorrow
The realisation of one's own death is the point at which one becomes adult.Collection: Adults
Love joins and then divides. How else would we be growing?Collection: Love
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?Collection: Mirrors