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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

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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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