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Balthazar (The Alexandria Quartet #2) QUOTES

Balthazar (The Alexandria Quartet #2) QUOTES

1 " Each of our five senses contains an art. "

― Lawrence Durrell , Balthazar (The Alexandria Quartet #2)

2 " 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. "

― Lawrence Durrell , Balthazar (The Alexandria Quartet #2)

3 " Very few people realise that sex is a psychic and not a physical act. The clumsy coupling of human beings is simply a biological paraphrase of this truth - a primitive method of introducing minds to each other, engaging them. But most people are stuck in the physical aspect, unaware of the poetic rapport which it so clumsily tries to teach. "

― Lawrence Durrell , Balthazar (The Alexandria Quartet #2)

4 " 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. "

― Lawrence Durrell , Balthazar (The Alexandria Quartet #2)

5 " We live" writes Pursewarden somewhere, "lives based upon selected fictions. Our view of reality is conditioned by our position in space and time - not by our personalities as we like to think. Thus every interpretation of reality is based upon a unique position. Two paces east or west and the whole picture is changed. "

― Lawrence Durrell , Balthazar (The Alexandria Quartet #2)

6 " A diary is the last place to go if you wish to seek the truth about a person. Nobody dares to make the final confession to themselves on paper: or at least, not about love. "

― Lawrence Durrell , Balthazar (The Alexandria Quartet #2)

7 " The steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said, "Your stay with us is so brief, let us not be reminded of the flight of the hours. God made eternity. Let us escape from the despotism of time altogether." These ancient and hereditary politenesses filled Nessim with emotion. "

― Lawrence Durrell , Balthazar (The Alexandria Quartet #2)

8 " But I love to feel events overlapping each other, crawling over one another like wet crabs in a basket "

― Lawrence Durrell , Balthazar (The Alexandria Quartet #2)

9 " Any concentration of the will displaces life and gives it bias in motion. Reality, he believed, was always trying to copy the imagination of man, from which it derived. "

― Lawrence Durrell , Balthazar (The Alexandria Quartet #2)

10 " I love the French edition with its uncut pages. I would not want a reader too lazy to use a knife on me. "

― Lawrence Durrell , Balthazar (The Alexandria Quartet #2)

11 " Landscape-tones: brown to bronze, steep skyline, low cloud, pearl ground with shadowed oyster and violet reflections. The lion-dust of desert: prophets’ tombs turned to zinc and copper at sunset on the ancient lake. "

― Lawrence Durrell , Balthazar (The Alexandria Quartet #2)

12 " إن تداخل الحقائق هو الطريقة الوحيدة كى تكون أمينا مع الزمن، حاشد فى كل لحظة باحتمالات لانهائية التكاثر. والحياة تتوقف على فعل الاختيار، أبدية الدينونة، وأبدية الانتقاء. "

― Lawrence Durrell , Balthazar (The Alexandria Quartet #2)

13 " إننى أعتقد، أنه من الأفضل لنا أن ندير ظهورنا بوضوح للكلمات الرنانة مثل "الجمال" و"الحقيقة" وما الى ذلك. هل ترين ما أرى؟ إننا سخفاء للغاية، وضعاف العقول عندما نتناول أمور الحياة،لكننا عمالقة عندما نحكم على الكون. "

― Lawrence Durrell , Balthazar (The Alexandria Quartet #2)

14 " ويكتب بورسواردن: "فى البداية نسعى كى نملأ بالحب فراغ ذواتنا ونستمتع لحظة قصيرة بوهم الكمال. لكن ذلك ليس إلا وهما. حيث إن هذا المخلوق الغريب الذى أعتقدنا أنه سيصلنا بجسد العالم، قد نجح فى النهاية، فى فصلناعنه فصلا تاما. الحب يصل ثم يفرق وإلا فكيف لنا أن ننمو؟ "

― Lawrence Durrell , Balthazar (The Alexandria Quartet #2)

15 " I am just a refugee from the long slow toothache of English life. It is terrible to love life so much you can hardly breathe! "

― Lawrence Durrell , Balthazar (The Alexandria Quartet #2)

16 " اننا عادة ما نولد لكي نحب هؤلاء الذين يصيبوننا بالجراح اكثر من غيرهم
رباعية الإسكندرية - بلتازار "

― Lawrence Durrell , Balthazar (The Alexandria Quartet #2)