Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't.
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Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.Elizabeth Bowen
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.
Elizabeth Bowen
One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.
Elizabeth Bowen
Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.
Elizabeth Bowen
It is in this unearthly first hour of spring twilight that earth's almost agonized livingness is most felt. This hour is so dreadful to some people that they hurry indoors and turn on the lights.
Elizabeth Bowen
The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.
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