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Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.

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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
Literature
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Autumn
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I suspect victims they win in the long run.
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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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The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
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Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.
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Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
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Solitary and farouche people don't have relationships they are quite unrelatable. If you and I were capable of being altogether house-trained and made jolly, we should be nicer people, but not writers.
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But surely love wouldn't get so much talked about if there were not something in it?
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Revenge was a very wild kind of justice.
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Habit, of which passion must be wary, may all the same be the sweetest part of love.
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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope it is impossible.
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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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life is a succession of readjustments.
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Nothing, that is say no one, can be such an inexorable tour-conductor as one's own conscience or sense of duty, if one allows either the upper hand: the self-bullying that goes on in the name of sight-seeing is grievous.
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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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This, my first [bicycle] had an intrinsic beauty. And it opened for me an era of all but flying, which roads emptily crossing theairy, gold-gorsy Common enhanced. Nothing since has equalled that birdlike freedom.
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