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It's only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness.

— Lawrence Durrell

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

The Alexandria Quartet (1957)

Man is only an extension of the spirit of place.

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

The Listener (1978)

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

The Alexandria Quartet (1957)

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will—whatever we may think.

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