The national ...

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.
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 Lawrence Durrell

Quotes from the same author

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
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 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.
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 Lawrence Durrell
We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.
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 Lawrence Durrell
It’s only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness.
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Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie.
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 Lawrence Durrell