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Clea
Lawrence DurrellLawrence Durrell Frases famosas
“Tal como todos os jovens, propunha-me ser um gênio, mas, felizmente, interveio o riso.”
Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened
Clea - página 128, Lawrence Durrell - Penguin Books, 1991, ISBN 0140153225, 9780140153224- 287 páginas
Lawrence Durrell frases e citações
Lawrence Durrell: Frases em inglês
“Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?”
Fonte: Justine
“We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.”
Fonte: Justine
“Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me and then show me the place where he was hanged.”
Variante: Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me, and then show me the place where he was hanged.
Fonte: Justine
“Art like life is an open secret.”
Fonte: The Alexandria Quartet
“Sorrow is implicit in love as gravitation is implicit in mass.”
Fonte: Monsieur
“A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.”
The Alexandria Quartet (1957–1960), Justine (1957)
“Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.”
The Alexandria Quartet (1957–1960), Clea (1960)
“A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants.”
Fonte: The Alexandria Quartet (1957–1960), Justine (1957)
“Gamblers and lovers really play to lose.”
Fonte: The Alexandria Quartet
“Science is the poetry of the intellect and poetry the science of the heart's affections.”
Fonte: The Alexandria Quartet
The Avignon Quintet (1974–1985), Monsieur (1974)
Contexto: 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.
Fonte: The Alexandria Quartet (1957–1960), Mountolive (1958), VIII
Fonte: The Alexandria Quartet (1957–1960), Mountolive (1958), I
Fonte: The Alexandria Quartet (1957–1960), Mountolive (1958), IV