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Elizabeth Bowen quotes about feeling

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: "Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies."
Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies. 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
Elizabeth Bowen quote: "Livvy noted there seemed some communal feeling between the..."
Livvy noted there seemed some communal feeling between the married: any wife could be faintly rude to anyone else's husband. Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Bowen quote: "Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art..."
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do. Elizabeth Bowen
I became, and remain, my characters' close and intent watcher: their director, never. Their creator I cannot feel that I was, or am. Elizabeth Bowen

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