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Quote by Elizabeth Bowen
Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelati

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

Other quotes by Elizabeth Bowen

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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Elizabeth Bowen
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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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