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To walk into history is to be free at once, to be at large among people.

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
History
People
Large
Among
Walk
Walks
Free

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nobody ever dies of an indignity.
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memory is to love what the saucer is to the cup.
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No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.
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[My early stories] are the work of a living writer whom I know in a sense, but can never meet.
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I suspect victims they win in the long run.
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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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Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
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fashion seems to exist for an abstract person who is not you or me.
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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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Habit is not mere subjugation, it is a tender tie when one remembers habit it seems to have been happiness.
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