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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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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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Experience isnt interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience. – Elizabeth Bowen

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Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust hatred alone is immortal. – William Hazlitt

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Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends. – Alphonsus Liguori

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