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The International Lawrence Durrell Society 𝄐 'Books are like love letters; they are destined for a particular person.' /da capo/

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At Eleusis one realizes, if never before, that there is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy. At Eleusis one becomes adapted to the cosmos. — Henry Miller, The Colossus of Maroussi (1941) Eleusis (Nikolaos Tombazis)

At Eleusis one realizes, if never before, that there is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy. 

At Eleusis one becomes adapted to the cosmos.

— Henry Miller, The Colossus of Maroussi (1941)

Eleusis (Nikolaos Tombazis)
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Proust on sleep and awakening (in Sodom and Gomorrah): “And perhaps it is more wonderful still when our landing at the waking-point is abrupt and the thoughts of our sleep, hidden by a cloak of oblivion, have no time to return to us gradually, before sleep ceases. [1/4]

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No mythology of the city would be complete without its Scobie, and Alexandria will be the poorer for it when his sun-cured body wrapped in a Union Jack is finally lowered into the shallow grave which awaits him at the Roman Catholic cemetery by the tramline. — Lawrence Durrell

No mythology of the city would be complete without its Scobie, and Alexandria will be the poorer for it when his sun-cured body wrapped in a Union Jack is finally lowered into the shallow grave which awaits him at the Roman Catholic cemetery by the tramline.

— Lawrence Durrell
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People don't want the experience Any more: they want an explanation, How you go about it, when and why. But all you can say is: Look, it's manifest And nobody's to blame: it has no name. The universe seems a huge hug without arms. — Lawrence Durrell

People don't want the experience
Any more: they want an explanation,
How you go about it, when and why.

But all you can say is: Look, it's manifest
And nobody's to blame: it has no name.

The universe seems a huge hug without arms.

— Lawrence Durrell
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A more human individual than Katsimbalis I have never met. Walking with him through the streets of Amaroussion I had the feeling that I was walking the earth in a totally new way. The earth became more intimate, more alive, more promising. — Henry Miller HM & GK (Hydra)

A more human individual than Katsimbalis I have never met.

Walking with him through the streets of Amaroussion I had the feeling that I was walking the earth in a totally new way. The earth became more intimate, more alive, more promising.

— Henry Miller

HM & GK (Hydra)
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“Ithaca gave you the beautiful journey; without her you wouldn’t have set upon the road.” – C.P. Cavafy, “Ithaca”, translated by Daniel Mendelsohn #poetry #cavafy

“Ithaca gave you the beautiful journey;
without her you wouldn’t have set upon the road.”

– C.P. Cavafy, “Ithaca”, translated by <a href="/DAMendelsohnNYC/">Daniel Mendelsohn</a> 

#poetry #cavafy
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There’s no new land, my friend, no New sea; for the city will follow you, In the same streets you’ll wander endlessly, The same mental suburbs slip from youth to age, In the same house go white at last — The city is a cage. — Constantine P. Cavafy translation: Lawrence Durrell

There’s no new land, my friend, no
New sea; for the city will follow you,
In the same streets you’ll wander endlessly,
The same mental suburbs slip from youth to age,
In the same house go white at last —
The city is a cage.

— Constantine P. Cavafy

translation: Lawrence Durrell
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ΛΕΜΟΝΙ. Δεν είναι δύσκολο να έχουμε στο μπαλκόνι ωραίο φρέσκο λεμόνι.

ΛΕΜΟΝΙ.
Δεν είναι δύσκολο να έχουμε στο μπαλκόνι ωραίο φρέσκο λεμόνι.
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Χαρούμενη Πέμπτη σε όλους εύχομαι!!! Σύρος.. Η αρχόντισσα των Κυκλάδων..

Χαρούμενη Πέμπτη σε όλους εύχομαι!!!
Σύρος..
Η αρχόντισσα των Κυκλάδων..