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.


'Out of a Book' in Orion III (1946)

Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.