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Quote by Elizabeth Bowen
Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies. -

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies. – Elizabeth Bowen

Other quotes by Elizabeth Bowen

Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. Ones relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain. – Elizabeth Bowen

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

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Women
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People can do all kinds of things that maybe arent wise in hindsight because of jealousy. – Kristin Bauer van Straten

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Envy slays itself by its own arrows. – Author Unknown

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There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism. – George Eliot

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Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits. – Paul Eldridge

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