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

 

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.


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This quote is just one of 11 total Elizabeth Bowen quotes in our collection. Elizabeth Bowen is known for saying '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.' as well as some of the following quotes.

Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.

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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

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Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.

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Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

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Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.

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