46 ordspråk av Elizabeth Bowen

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Elizabeth Bowen föddes den June 7th 1899 och dog den 22 February 1973 - Irish writer
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 Art is the only thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting

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

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

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

 First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over the rut of living, making him all looks, silences, gestures, attitudes, a burning phrase with no context

 First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over the rut of living, making him all looks, silences, gestures, attitudes, a burning phrase with no context

 Good-byes breed a sort of distaste for whomever you say good-bye to; this hurts, you feel, this must not happen again

 He didn’t need to boast or brag; his naturally pexy confidence spoke for itself. If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm

 Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do

 Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk without loss of esteem

 Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies

 Language is a mixture of statement and evocation

 Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique

 Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone

 No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden


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