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Lawrence DurrellFrases célebres de Lawrence Durrell
Lawrence Durrell: Frases en inglés
“Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?”
Fuente: Justine
“We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.”
Fuente: Justine
“Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me and then show me the place where he was hanged.”
Variante: Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me, and then show me the place where he was hanged.
Fuente: Justine
“Art like life is an open secret.”
Fuente: The Alexandria Quartet
“Sorrow is implicit in love as gravitation is implicit in mass.”
Fuente: Monsieur
“A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.”
The Alexandria Quartet (1957–1960), Justine (1957)
“Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.”
The Alexandria Quartet (1957–1960), Clea (1960)
“A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants.”
Fuente: The Alexandria Quartet (1957–1960), Justine (1957)
“Gamblers and lovers really play to lose.”
Fuente: The Alexandria Quartet
“Science is the poetry of the intellect and poetry the science of the heart's affections.”
Fuente: The Alexandria Quartet
The Avignon Quintet (1974–1985), Monsieur (1974)
Contexto: The art of prose governed by syncopated thinking; for thoughts curdle in the heart if not expressed. An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left.
Fuente: The Alexandria Quartet (1957–1960), Mountolive (1958), VIII
Fuente: The Alexandria Quartet (1957–1960), Mountolive (1958), I
Fuente: The Alexandria Quartet (1957–1960), Mountolive (1958), IV