“It is a pity indeed to travel and not get this essential sense of landscape values. You do not need a sixth sense for it. It is there if you just close your eyes and breathe softly through your nose; you will hear the whispered message, for all landscapes ask the same question in the same whisper. 'I am watching you -- are you watching yourself in me?' Most travelers hurry too much...the great thing is to try and travel with the eyes of the spirit wide open, and not to much factual information. To tune in, without reverence, idly -- but with real inward attention. It is to be had for the feeling...you can extract the essence of a place once you know how. If you just get as still as a needle, you'll be there.”
“It is a pity indeed to travel and not get this essential sense of landscape values. You do not need a sixth sense for it. It is there if you just close your eyes and breathe softly through your nose; you will hear the whispered message, for all landscapes ask the same question in the same whisper. 'I am watching you -- are you watching yourself in me?' Most travelers hurry too much...the great thing is to try and travel with the eyes of the spirit wide open, and not to much factual information. To tune in, without reverence, idly -- but with real inward attention. It is to be had for the feeling...you can extract the essence of a place once you know how. If you just get as still as a needle, you'll be there.”
Lawrence Durrell
“I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.”
Lawrence Durrell“It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.”
Lawrence Durrell“Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.”
Lawrence Durrell“Truth disappears with the telling of it.”
Lawrence Durrell“History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.”
Lawrence Durrell“The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.”
Lawrence Durrell“Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.”
Lawrence Durrell“Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.”
Lawrence Durrell“The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.”
Lawrence Durrell“Love is poetry plus biology.”
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