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Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

Elizabeth Bowen Topic: Admiration

It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home.

Elizabeth Bowen Topic: All About Love

It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home.

Elizabeth Bowen Topic: Emotion

The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.

Elizabeth Bowen Topic: Existence

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

Elizabeth Bowen Topic: Fate

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

Elizabeth Bowen Topic: Inspirational

Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.

Elizabeth Bowen Topic: Language

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.

Elizabeth Bowen Topic: Language

Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

Elizabeth Bowen Topic: Loneliness and Solitude

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.

Elizabeth Bowen Topic: Loneliness and Solitude

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Elizabeth Bowen Topic: Love

The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.

Elizabeth Bowen Topic: Memory

No object is mysterious. The mystery is in your eye.

Elizabeth Bowen Topic: Mystery

Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.

Elizabeth Bowen Topic: Negativity

The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.

Elizabeth Bowen Topic: Photography

Autumn arrives in the early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.

Elizabeth Bowen Topic: Seasons

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