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Lawrence George Durrell foi um romancista, poeta e dramaturgo britânico nascido na Índia.

A sua obra mais famosa é Quarteto de Alexandria, uma tetralogia composta pelos livros Justine , Balthazar , Mountolive e Clea . Wikipedia  

✵ 27. Fevereiro 1912 – 7. Novembro 1990  •  Outros nomes Lawrence George Durrell
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Lawrence Durrell Frases famosas

“Procuramos preencher o vazio da nossa individualidade e por um breve momento desfrutamos da ilusão de estar completos. Mas é só uma ilusão. O amor une e depois divide.”

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“É necessária muita energia e muita neurose para escrever um romance. Se fôssemos realmente sensatos, faríamos outra coisa.”

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“Tal como todos os jovens, propunha-me ser um gênio, mas, felizmente, interveio o riso.”

Lawrence Durrell livro Clea

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

“Não há múmias, pedaços de tecido colados ao osso, medas de sal ou cadáveres que jamais estivessem nem metade dos mortos que estamos hoje.”

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Lawrence Durrell: Frases em inglês

“Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?”

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Lawrence Durrell livro Justine

Fonte: Justine

“We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.”

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Lawrence Durrell livro Justine

Fonte: Justine

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

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Lawrence Durrell livro Justine

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

“The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you…”

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“Love is like trench warfare - you cannot see the enemy, but you know he is there and that it is wiser to keep your head down.”

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Lawrence Durrell livro Balthazar

Fonte: Balthazar

“Art like life is an open secret.”

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Lawrence Durrell The Alexandria Quartet

Fonte: The Alexandria Quartet

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

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Lawrence Durrell The Alexandria Quartet

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

“Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.”

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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.”

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Lawrence Durrell livro Justine

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

“I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced.”

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

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Lawrence Durrell livro Justine

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

“I am quite alone. I am neither happy nor unhappy; I lie suspended like a hair or a feather in the cloudy mixtures of memory.”

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Lawrence Durrell livro Justine

Fonte: Justine

“There is no pain compared to that of loving a woman who makes her body accessible to one and yet who is incapable of delivering her true self -- because she does not know where to find it.”

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“These are the moments which are not calculable, and cannot be assessed in words; they live on in the solution of memory, like wonderful creatures, unique of their own kind, dredged up from the floors of some unexplored ocean.”

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Lawrence Durrell livro Justine

Fonte: Justine

“Gamblers and lovers really play to lose.”

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Lawrence Durrell The Alexandria Quartet

Fonte: The Alexandria Quartet

“Odd, isn't it? He really was the right man for her in a sort of way; but then as you know, it is a law of love that the so-called 'right' person always comes to soon or too late.”

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Lawrence Durrell livro Balthazar

Fonte: Balthazar

“It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.”

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“Science is the poetry of the intellect and poetry the science of the heart's affections.”

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Lawrence Durrell The Alexandria Quartet

Fonte: 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.”

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Lawrence Durrell The Avignon Quintet

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.

“I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.”

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Fonte: Bitter Lemons of Cyprus

“Art—the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind the sackcloth of reality, forced out by the pain of human memory.”

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Lawrence Durrell livro Justine

Fonte: Justine

“In French the truth of passion stood up coldly and cruelly to the scrutiny of human experience. In his own curious phrase he [Pursewarden] had always qualified it as 'an unsniggerable language.”

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Lawrence Durrell The Alexandria Quartet

Fonte: The Alexandria Quartet (1957–1960), Mountolive (1958), VIII

“Our common actions in reality are simply the sackcloth covering which hides the cloth-of-gold - the meaning of the pattern. For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential—the imagination.”

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Lawrence Durrell The Alexandria Quartet

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

“Lovers can find nothing to say to each other that has not been said and unsaid a thousand times over. Kisses were invented to translate such nothings into wounds”

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Lawrence Durrell The Alexandria Quartet

Fonte: The Alexandria Quartet (1957–1960), Mountolive (1958), I

“here was Kenilworth now heading the new department concerned with Personnel [-] one of those blank administrative constructs which offered no openings into the world of policy. A dead end. [-] he would soon develop the negative powers of obstruction which always derive from a sense of failure.”

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Lawrence Durrell The Alexandria Quartet

Fonte: The Alexandria Quartet (1957–1960), Mountolive (1958), IV

“I remember Nessim once saying [-] that Alexandria was the great winepress of love; those who emerged from it were the sick men, the solitaries, the prophets-I mean all who have been deeply wounded in their sex.”

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Lawrence Durrell The Alexandria Quartet

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