Irish - Novelist | June 7, 1899 - February 22, 1973
No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.
Elizabeth Bowen
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Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
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Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
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One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.
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Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.
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When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.
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Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.
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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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We are minor in everything but our passions.
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If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.
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Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.
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Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
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