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
“I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.”
Interview in the Sunday Times, 1988
Origine: The Alexandria Quartet (1957–1960), Mountolive (1958), X
“No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.”
The Alexandria Quartet (1957–1960), Balthazar (1958)
“the confluent smallpox - invented perhaps as the cruellest remedy for human vanity”
Origine: The Alexandria Quartet (1957–1960), Mountolive (1958), II
Origine: The Alexandria Quartet (1957–1960), Mountolive (1958), II
“Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.”
The Alexandria Quartet (1957–1960), Justine (1957)
About the pre-WWII days in Kalami on Corfu (1975), as quoted in Amateurs in Eden (2011) by Joanna Hodgkin, p. 6
“Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.”
Letter to Henry Miller, 1948
Interview in Writers at Work, Second Series, ed. George Plimpton (1963)
Origine: The Alexandria Quartet (1957–1960), Mountolive (1958), II
“Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.”
The Alexandria Quartet (1957–1960), Clea (1960)
“For the body is only the outer periphery of the spirit, its solid part.”
Quarteto de Alexandria, ALEXANDRIA QUARTET
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