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Quote by Elizabeth Bowen
Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have

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

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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope it is impossible. – Elizabeth Bowen

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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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If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits. – Ruth Benedict

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It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it. – Robert E. Lee

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War is fear cloaked in courage. – William Westmoreland

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The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead. – John le Carre

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