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The House in Paris (1926)
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Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique.
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Her illness seemed to be one prolonged mistake. Her self looked, wildly smiling, out of her body: what was happening in here was too terrible to acknowledge; she had to travesty it and laugh it off. Unserene, she desperately kept her head.
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There must be something she wanted; and that therefore she was no lady.
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That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.
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No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.
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Spoilt pleasure is a sad, unseemly thing; you can only bury it.
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It is a wary business, walking about a strange house you are to know well. Only cats and dogs with their more expressive bodies enact the tension we share with them at such times. The you inside you gathers up defensively: something is stealing upon you every moment; you will never be quite the same again. These new unsmiling lights, reflections and objects are to become your memories, riveted to you closer than friends or lovers, going with you, even, into the grave: worse, they may become dear and fasten like so many leeches on your heart.
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Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
George Santayana
Elizabeth Bowen
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Born:
June 7, 1899
Died:
February 22, 1973
(aged 73)
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