Lawrence Durrell

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

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

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

Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they read more

Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or read more

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.