Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
"Elizabeth Bowen", Order of the British Empire/CBE was an Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous novelists! More Elizabeth Bowen on Wikipedia.Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.
Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.
Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
We are minor in everything but our passions.
Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.
When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.
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.
Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't.
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