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Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

~Elizabeth Bowen

Topics: Against Alone Enemies Feeling Jealousy More Smiling Than

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No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.

~Elizabeth Bowen

Topics: Eye Mysterious Mystery Object Your

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Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.

~Elizabeth Bowen

Topics: Autumn Close Day Early Early Morning Morning Spring Winter

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Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

~Elizabeth Bowen

Topics: Creeps Eagle Fate Like Rat

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When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.

~Elizabeth Bowen

Topics: Coming Love Out Saved Someone Start Up Wishes You Your

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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

Topics: Feeling Lead Loved Lover Must Out Part Seen Self-Respect Tribal Wish

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Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.

~Elizabeth Bowen

Topics: Must Nobody Something Speaks Truth

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Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

~Elizabeth Bowen

Topics: Climax Got Silences Speak You

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We are minor in everything but our passions.

~Elizabeth Bowen

Topics: Everything Minor Our Passions

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Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.

~Elizabeth Bowen

Topics: His Kinder Life Narcissist Nobody Own React Terms Than While You

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Novelist

Born: June 7th, 1899

Died: February 22nd, 1973

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