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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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Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain. – Elizabeth Bowen

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Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind. – Max Eastman

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You learn to put your emotional luggage where it will do some good, instead of using it to shit on other people, or blow up aeroplanes. – Margaret Drabble

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…that freshness of feeling, that delicate honor which shrinks from wounding even a sentiment… – George Eliot, Adam Bede

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It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam. – G. K. Chesterton

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