Lawrence Durrell Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• The loved object is simply one that has shared an experience at the same moment of time, narcissistically; and the desire to be near the beloved object is at first not due to the idea of possessing it, but simply to let the two experiences compare themselves, like reflections in different mirrors. All this may precede the first look, kiss, or touch; precede ambition, pride, or envy; precede the first declarations which mark the turning point—for from here love degenerates into habit, possession, and back to loneliness.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Loneliness, Ambition, Kissing

  Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.39, Faber & Faber

• Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.

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  Desire, Fiction, Bears

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

• I have decided to leave Clea’s last letter un-answered. I no longer wish to coerce anyone, to make promises, to think of life in terms of compacts, resolutions, covenants. It will be up to Clea to interpret my silence according to her own needs and desires, to come to me if she has need or not, as the case may be. Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?

  Lawrence Durrell

  Thinking, Silence, Promise

  Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.180, Faber & Faber

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

  Lawrence Durrell

  Heart, Soul, Desire

• Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Desire, Prohibition, Cures

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