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Quote by Elizabeth Bowen
Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly

Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone. – 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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Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain. – Elizabeth Bowen

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To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think about, I need to spend large amounts of time alone. – Donna Tartt

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Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it. – William Shenstone

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