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Letter "E" » Elizabeth Bowen Quotes
«Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.»
Author: Elizabeth Bowen
«When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out.»
«Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't.»
«Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.»
«We are minor in everything but our passions»
«The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.»
«Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies»
«Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone»
«Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do»
«Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.»
Author: Elizabeth Bowen
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