Elizabeth Bowen

(64 votes)   Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.

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(22 votes)   Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

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(291 votes)   It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home.

Elizabeth Bowen
1899-1973, Anglo-Irish Novelist

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(265 votes)   The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.

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1899-1973, Anglo-Irish Novelist

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(259 votes)   Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain.

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1899-1973, Anglo-Irish Novelist

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(177 votes)   Some people are moulded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

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(134 votes)   Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

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1899-1973, Anglo-Irish Novelist

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(130 votes)   The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.

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(125 votes)   The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.

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(114 votes)   The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.

Elizabeth Bowen
1899-1973, Anglo-Irish Novelist

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(70 votes)   Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.

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(69 votes)   It is in this unearthly first hour of spring twilight that earth's almost agonized livingness is most felt. This hour is so dreadful to some people that they hurry indoors and turn on the lights.

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(59 votes)   Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.

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(57 votes)   Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique.

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(55 votes)   If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.

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