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Quotes from The Avignon Quintet — Lawrence Durrell

1912–1990 England

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He had at last discovered that love had no pith in it, and that the projection of one own's feelings upon the images of a beloved was in the long run, an act of self-mutilation.

The Avignon Quintet (1974)

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.

The Avignon Quintet (1974)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Lawrence Durrell (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.