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We are minor in everything but our passions.

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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
Everything
Minor
Minors
Passions
Passion
Literature

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Reason can never reconcile one to life: nothing allays the wants one cannot explain.
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Silence sat in the taxi, as though a stranger had got in.
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It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.
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If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.
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To walk into history is to be free at once, to be at large among people.
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Sins cut boldly up through every class in society, but mere misdemeanours show a certain level in life.
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...the power-loving temperament is more dangerous when it either prefers or is forced to operate in what is materially a void. Wehave everything to dread from the dispossessed.
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Someone soon to start on a journey is always a little holy.
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Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.
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