I see artists as a great battalion moving through paint, words, music towards cosmological interpretation.

- Lawrence Durrell

Whatever the heart desires, it purchases at the cost of soul

- Lawrence Durrell

Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine

- Lawrence Durrell

All culture corrupts, but French culture corrupts absolutely.

- Lawrence Durrell

Try and travel with the eyes of the spirit wide open, and not too much factual information. To tune in, without reverence, idly -- but with real inwa…

- Lawrence Durrell

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

- Lawrence Durrell

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

- Lawrence Durrell

A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants.

- Lawrence Durrell

We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.

- Lawrence Durrell