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one should discuss one's difficulties only when they are over.

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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
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Every love has a poetic relevance of its own each love brings to light only what to it is relevant. Outside lies the junk-yard of what does not matter.
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No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.
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Have not all poetic truths been already stated? The essence of a poetic truth is that no statement of it can be final.
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in my experience one thing you don't learn from is anything anyone set up to be a lesson what you are to know you pick up as you go along.
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Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
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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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memory is to love what the saucer is to the cup.
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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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The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling the wish to be seen as loved is part of one's self-respect.
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Dialogue must appear realistic without being so. Actual realism-the lifting, as it were, of passages from a stenographer's take-down of a 'real life' conversation-would be disruptive. Of what? Of the illusion of the novel. In 'real life' everything is diluted in the novel everything is condensed.
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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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Sins cut boldly up through every class in society, but mere misdemeanours show a certain level in life.
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The paradox of romantic love -- that what one possesses, one can no longer desire -- was at work.
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