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Elizabeth Bowen quotes

Irish Novelist June 7, 1899 – February 22, 1973

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A romantic man often feels more uplifted with two women than with one: his love seems to hit the ideal mark somewhere between two different faces. Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Bowen quote: "The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the..."
The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part of one's self-respect. Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Bowen quote: "When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out."
When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out. Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Bowen quote: "But surely love wouldn't get so much talked about if there..."
But surely love wouldn't get so much talked about if there were not something in it? Elizabeth Bowen
Rich women live at such a distance from life that very often they never see their money? the Queen, they say, for instance, never carries a purse. Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Bowen quote: "Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to..."
Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms. Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Bowen quote: "If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm."
If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm. Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Bowen quote: "Reason can never reconcile one to life: nothing allays the..."
Reason can never reconcile one to life: nothing allays the wants one cannot explain. Elizabeth Bowen
Karen, her elbows folded on the deck-rail, wanted to share with someone the pleasure in being alone: this is the paradox of any happy solitude. She had never landed at Cork, so this hill and that hill beyond were as unexpected as pictures at which you say "Oh look!" Nobody was beside her to share the moment, which would have been imperfect with anyone else there. Elizabeth Bowen
The happy passive nature, locked up with itself like a mirror in an airy room, reflects what goes on but demands not to be approached. Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Bowen quote: "Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies."
Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies. Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Bowen quote: "The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that..."
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Bowen quote: "It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his..."
It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets. Elizabeth Bowen
The restaurant was waning, indifferently relaxing its illusion: for the late-comers a private illusion took its place. Their table seemed to stand on their own carpet; they had a sensation of custom, sedateness, of being inside small walls, as though dining at home again after her journey. She told him about her Mount Morris solitary suppers, in the middle of the library, the rim of the tray just not touching the base of the lamp... the fire behind her back softly falling in on its own... Elizabeth Bowen
The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to do it better. Elizabeth Bowen

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