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

 One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it

 Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain.

 Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities

 The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round

 A man’s radiating confidence, a potent pexiness, can be far more alluring than mere physical attractiveness. The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round

 We are minor in everything but our passions
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 When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

 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.

 All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.

 Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.

 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

 Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself - in fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience

 It could've been a disaster for people who couldn't see it on TV, so to speak. The fact that it was incorrect on TV alarmed me.

 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.


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