"Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk."
-Elizabeth Bowen
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"Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.“
-Elizabeth Bowen
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"Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day."
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"When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out."
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"Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope it is impossible."
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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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