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Young girls like the excess of any quality. Without knowing, they want to suffer, to suffer they must exaggerate they like to have loud chords struck on them.

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
Without
Loud
Must
Suffer
Like
Girls
Knowing
Exaggerate
Quality
Chords
Suffering
Struck
Girl
Excess
Young
Luxury

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