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Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Elizabeth Bowen

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Elizabeth Bowen
Age: 73 †
Born: 1899
Born: June 7
Died: 1973
Died: February 22
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Dublin city
Elisabeth Bowen
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Loneliness
Enemy
Alone
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Smiling
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one should discuss one's difficulties only when they are over.
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Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.
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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.
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nobody ever dies of an indignity.
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Silence sat in the taxi, as though a stranger had got in.
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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.
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... in nine out of ten cases the original wish to write is the wish to make oneself felt[ellipsis in source] the non-essential writer never gets past that wish.
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