Lawrence Durrell Quotes about Love

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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Love, Anniversary, Valentines Day

Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.803, Faber & Faber

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

Love, Cities, World

Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.49, Faber & Faber

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

Love, Jealousy, Envy

Lawrence Durrell (1957). “Justine: By Lawrence Durrell”

A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.

Love, Men, Letters

Lawrence Durrell (1991). “Clea”, Penguin Group USA

It's unthinkable not to love - you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Love, Nervous, Breakdown

The Observer Interview, 1990.

Love joins and then divides. How else would we be growing?

Love, Growing, Divides

Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.352, Faber & Faber