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.
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.