Frasi di Lawrence Durrell

Lawrence Durrell è stato uno scrittore e poeta britannico.

✵ 27. Febbraio 1912 – 7. Novembre 1990   •   Altri nomi Lawrence George Durrell

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Lawrence Durrell frasi celebri

“Non l'amore è cieco, ma la gelosia.”

da Justine
Origine: Citato in Aa. Vv., Dammi mille baci, e ancora cento. Le più belle citazioni sull'amore, a cura delle Redazioni Garzanti, Garzanti, 2013.

Lawrence Durrell: Frasi in inglese

“Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me and then show me the place where he was hanged.”

Lawrence Durrell libro Justine (romanzo)

Variante: Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me, and then show me the place where he was hanged.
Origine: Justine

“Art like life is an open secret.”

Lawrence Durrell The Alexandria Quartet

Origine: The Alexandria Quartet

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

Lawrence Durrell The Alexandria Quartet

The Alexandria Quartet (1957–1960), Justine (1957)

“Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.”

Lawrence Durrell The Alexandria Quartet

The Alexandria Quartet (1957–1960), Clea (1960)

“There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.”

Lawrence Durrell libro Justine (romanzo)

Origine: The Alexandria Quartet (1957–1960), Justine (1957)

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

Lawrence Durrell libro Justine (romanzo)

Origine: The Alexandria Quartet (1957–1960), Justine (1957)

“Gamblers and lovers really play to lose.”

Lawrence Durrell The Alexandria Quartet

Origine: The Alexandria Quartet

“An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left.”

Lawrence Durrell The Avignon Quintet

The Avignon Quintet (1974–1985), Monsieur (1974)
Contesto: 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.

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