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Elizabeth Bowen - The Death of the Heart (1938)

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It is in this unearthly first hour of spring twilight that earth's almost agonized livingness is most felt. This hour is so dreadful to some people that they hurry indoors and turn on the lights.

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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.

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There are no half measures. We either have dinner or telephone the police.

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If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.

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Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk without loss of esteem.

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Very young people are true but not resounding instruments.

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After inside upheavals, it is important to fix on imperturbable things. Their imperturbableness, their air that nothing has happened renews our guarantee.

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Elizabeth Bowen

Elizabeth Bowen

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