Guilt always hurries towards ...

Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie.
Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie.
 Lawrence Durrell

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
 George S. Patton
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
 Robert Schuller
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
 Harriet Beecher Stowe

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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
 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
We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.
 Lawrence Durrell
It’s only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness.
 Lawrence Durrell
The national characteristics... the restless metaphysical curiosity, the tenderness of good living and the passionate individualism. This is the invisible constant in a place with which the ordinary tourist can get in touch just by sitting quite quietly over a glass of wine in a Paris bistro.
 Lawrence Durrell