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Solitary and farouche people don't have relationships they are quite unrelatable.

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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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People
Solitary
Relationships

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fashion seems to exist for an abstract person who is not you or me.
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Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.
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Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.
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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope it is impossible.
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We desert those who desert us we cannot afford to suffer we must live how we can.
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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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nobody ever dies of an indignity.
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