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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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Elizabeth Bowen
Age: 73 †
Born: 1899
Born: June 7
Died: 1973
Died: February 22
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Dublin city
Elisabeth Bowen
Narcissism
Kinder
Conceit
React
Terms
Nobody
Term
Narcissist
Life
Conceited

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Don't you understand that all language is dead currency? How they keep on playing shop with it all the same.
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Darling, I don't want you I've got no place for you I only want what you give. I don't want the whole of anyone.... What you want is the whole of me-isn't it, isn't it?-and the whole of me isn't there for anybody. In that full sense you want me I don't exist.
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The novelist's--any writer's--object is to whittle down his meaning to the exactest and finest possible point. What, of course, isfatal is when he does not know what he does mean: he has no point to sharpen.
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Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.
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She walked about with the rather fated expression you see in photographs of girls who have subsequently been murdered, but nothing had so far happened to her.
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life is a succession of readjustments.
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