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.

Elizabeth Bowen

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

Elizabeth Bowen

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.

Elizabeth Bowen

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.

Elizabeth Bowen

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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