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People in love, in whom every sense is open, cannot beat off the influence of a place.

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The slight sense of degeneracy induced by reading novels before luncheon

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The heart may think it knows better: The senses know that absence blots people out. We have really no absent friends.

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Nothing, that is say no one, can be such an inexorable tour-conductor as one's own conscience or sense of duty, if one allows either the upper hand: the self-bullying that goes on in the name of sight-seeing is grievous.

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One can suffer a convulsion of one's entire nature, and, unless it makes some noise, no one notices. It's not just that we are incurious; we completely lack any sense of each other's existences.

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"What's the matter with this country is the matter with the lot of us individually— our sense of personality is a sense of outrage and we'll never get outside of it." But the hold of the country was that, she considered, it could be thought of in terms of oneself, so interpreted.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Elizabeth Bowen

Elizabeth Bowen

Born: June 7, 1899
Died: February 22, 1973 (aged 73)
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