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Letter "E" » Elizabeth Bowen Quotes
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«No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden»
«Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique»
Author: Elizabeth Bowen
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Ideas
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confirming, confirms, enlarge, enlarging, meeting, outlook, to enlarge, unique, unlike
«Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain.»
Author: Elizabeth Bowen
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learnt, open to, relation, relation to, solicitude, The Lonely One, touching
«If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm»
Author: Elizabeth Bowen
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alarm, alarmed, alarming, cause, Cause for Alarm, cause of a, look, look at, one way, The Alarm, way
«Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.»
«All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.»
«The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round»
«It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.»
«First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over the rut of living, making him all looks, silences, gestures, attitudes, a burning phrase with no context»
Author: Elizabeth Bowen
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First love
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context, First Love, frantic, gestures, haughty, phrase, rut, ruts, silences, swings
«Art is the only thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting»
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