5 Quotes by Elizabeth Bowen about love
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Look, let's see ourselves in the distance, then we shall think, how happy they are! We're young; this is spring; this is a wood. In some sort of way or other we love each other, and our lives are before us—God pity us! Do you hear the birds?
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To love makes one less clever.
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And because no one answered or cared and a conversation went on without her she felt profoundly lonely, suspecting once more for herself a particular doom of exclusion. Something of the trees in their intimacy of shadow was shared by the husband and wife and their host in the tree-shadowed room. She thought of love with its gift of importance. "I must break in on all this," she thought as she looked around the room.
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Don't you see we're all full of horrible power, working against each other however much we may love?
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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.
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