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

Other quotes by Elizabeth Bowen

Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk. – Elizabeth Bowen

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Women
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There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone. – Elizabeth Bowen

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The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental. – Thomas Henry Huxley

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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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Emotions

The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. – Albert Einstein

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Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness. – John Sterling

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