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Justine (romanzo)
Lawrence DurrellJustine (romanzo)
Lawrence DurrellLawrence 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
“Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?”
Lawrence Durrell libro Justine (romanzo)
Origine: Justine
“We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.”
Lawrence Durrell libro Justine (romanzo)
Origine: Justine
“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
“Sorrow is implicit in love as gravitation is implicit in mass.”
Lawrence Durrell libro Monsieur
Origine: Monsieur
“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)
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)
Lawrence Durrell libro Justine (romanzo)
Origine: Justine
“Gamblers and lovers really play to lose.”
Lawrence Durrell The Alexandria Quartet
Origine: The Alexandria Quartet
“Science is the poetry of the intellect and poetry the science of the heart's affections.”
Lawrence Durrell The Alexandria Quartet
Origine: The Alexandria Quartet
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.
Lawrence Durrell The Alexandria Quartet
Origine: The Alexandria Quartet (1957–1960), Mountolive (1958), VIII
Lawrence Durrell The Alexandria Quartet
The Alexandria Quartet (1957–1960), Justine (1957)
Lawrence Durrell The Alexandria Quartet
Origine: The Alexandria Quartet (1957–1960), Mountolive (1958), I
Lawrence Durrell The Alexandria Quartet
Origine: The Alexandria Quartet (1957–1960), Mountolive (1958), IV
Lawrence Durrell The Alexandria Quartet
The Alexandria Quartet (1957–1960), Justine (1957)
