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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Every time a resolve or fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing fruit, it is worse than a chance lost; it works to hinder future emotions from taking the normal path of discharge. – William James

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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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Sentimentality–thats what we call the sentiment we dont share. – Graham Greene

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Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary. – Mark Twain

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