Quote by Elizabeth Bowen
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There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone. – 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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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope it is impossible. – Elizabeth Bowen

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Hope
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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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Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone. – Charlie Chaplin

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The only time I commit to conspiracy theories is when something way retarded happens. Like Lee Harvey Oswald acting alone. – Joe Rogan

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I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone. – Cyrano de Bergerac

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If I was writing songs just for me Id only play them in my living room, alone. – Tori Amos

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