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Elizabeth Bowen

"When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out." — Elizabeth Bowen
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"Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak." — Elizabeth Bowen
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"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." — Elizabeth Bowen
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"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." — Elizabeth Bowen
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"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." — Elizabeth Bowen
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"Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone" — Elizabeth Bowen
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"Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do" — Elizabeth Bowen
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"Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have." — Elizabeth Bowen
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"Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique" — Elizabeth Bowen
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"Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day." — Elizabeth Bowen
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"Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities" — Elizabeth Bowen
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"Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms" — Elizabeth Bowen
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"Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself - in fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience" — Elizabeth Bowen
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"That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things" — Elizabeth Bowen
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"The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part of one's self-respect" — Elizabeth Bowen
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"Language is a mixture of statement and evocation" — Elizabeth Bowen
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"Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk without loss of esteem" — Elizabeth Bowen
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"Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't." — Elizabeth Bowen
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"Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible." — Elizabeth Bowen
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"We are minor in everything but our passions" — Elizabeth Bowen
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"Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies" — Elizabeth Bowen
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