Lawrence Durrell, from the Alexandria Quartet

“For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential – the imagination.” – From The Alexandria Quartet, by Lawrence Durrell, 1912- 1990

Durrell lived on the top floor of this house in Alexandria. While there, he wrote Prospero’s Cell.