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

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

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Goodbye
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The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart. – Elizabeth Bowen

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Absence
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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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alone
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Other Quotes from
Emotions
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Too much emotion is like none at all. – Du Mu, translated

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Emotions

The heart is half a prophet. – Yiddish Proverb

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Emotions

I feel an army in my fist. – Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805), The Robbers, translated from German

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Emotions

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

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Emotions

Random Quotes

The only man who sticks closer to you in adversity than a friend is a creditor. – Author Unknown

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Debt

Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast. – Logan Pearsall Smith

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Vanity

So let man consider of what he was created; he was created of gushing water issuing between the loins and the breast-bones. – Quran

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Water

When the waves are round me breaking,
As I pace the deck alone,
And my eye in vain is seeking
Some green leaf to rest upon;
What would not I give to wander
Where my old companions dwell?
Absence makes the heart grow fonder,
Isle of Beauty, fare thee well! – John Milton

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Reflection