4 Quotes by Elizabeth Bowen about sad
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Darling, I don't want you; I've got no place for you; I only want what you give. I don't want the whole of anyone.... What you want is the whole of me-isn't it, isn't it?-and the whole of me isn't there for anybody. In that full sense you want me I don't exist.
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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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You and I are enough to break anyone's heart—how can we not break our own?
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There were readers who could expect no more from life, and just dared to look in books to see how much they had missed.
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