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The Death of the Heart (1938)
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Often intimacies between women go backwards, beginning with revelations and ending up in small talk.
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For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal. Expectations are the most perilous form of dream, and when dreams do realize themselves it is in the waking world: the difference is subtly but often painfully felt.
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Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.
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Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself — in fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.
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Sins cut boldly up through every class in society, but mere misdemeanours show a certain level in life.
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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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The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Elizabeth Bowen
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Born:
June 7, 1899
Died:
February 22, 1973
(aged 73)
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