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Quote by Elizabeth Bowen
It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build th

It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home. – Elizabeth Bowen

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

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All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you. – Rainer Maria Rilke

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Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology. – Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno

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Ere he returned, Madame descended and passed from the sparkling sunshine into the gloom of the portico, with a melancholy consciousness of the symbolic. For her spirit, too, had its poetic intuitions and insights… – Israel Zangwill, Dreamers of the Ghetto, “From a Mattress Grave,” 1897

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Today there are no more irreconcilable enmities, because there are no more disinterested emotions: thats a good thing born from a bad thing. – Joseph Joubert

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