Elizabeth Bowen

• "Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.“
• "There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.“
• "Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.“
• "Education is not so important as people think.“
• "Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.“
• "Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope it is impossible.“
• "Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.“
• "When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.“
• "Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.“
• "Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.“
• "Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.“

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