Reflections on a Marine Venus Quotes

“…I once found a list of diseases as yet unclassified by medical science, and among these there occurred the word Islomania, which was described as a rare but by no means unknown affliction of spirit. There are people…who find islands somehow irresistible. The mere knowledge that they are on an island, a little world surrounded by the sea, fills them with an indescribable intoxication. These born “islomanes”…are direct descendents of the Atlanteans”
― Lawrence Durrell, Reflections on a Marine Venus: A Companion to the Landscape of Rhodes

“So long as we are in this place we shall not be free from her; it is as if our thoughts must be forever stained by some of her dark illuminations—the preoccupation of a stone woman inherited from a past whose greatest hopes and ideals fell to ruins.”
― Lawrence Durrell, Reflections on a Marine Venus: A Companion to the Landscape of Rhodes