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When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.
Elizabeth Bowen
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Elizabeth Bowen
Age: 73 †
Born: 1899
Born: June 7
Died: 1973
Died: February 22
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Dublin city
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All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.
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life is a succession of readjustments.
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Revenge was a very wild kind of justice.
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Raids are slightly constipating.
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No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.
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Each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant impossible socially, but full scale and it's the knockings and battering we sometimes hear in each other that keep our banter from utter banality.
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Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
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Childish fantasy, like the sheath over the bud, not only protects but curbs the terrible budding spirit, protects not only innocence from the world, but the world from the power of innocence.
Elizabeth Bowen
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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Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.
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... artists were intended to be an ornament to society. As a society in themselves they are unthinkable.
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No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden.
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Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
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Sport and death are the two great socializing factors in Ireland.
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Makes of men date, like makes of car.
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Art, at any rate in a novel, must be indissolubly linked with craft.
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I suspect victims they win in the long run.
Elizabeth Bowen
One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.
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Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it.
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nothing is more restful than conformity.
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