Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
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That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.Elizabeth Bowen
The heart may think it knows better the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.
Elizabeth Bowen
Each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant - impossible socially, but full-scale - and it's the knockings and battering we sometimes hear in each other that keep our intercourse from utter banality
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Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.
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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.
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Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.
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