Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope it is impossible.
Elizabeth Bowen
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More quotes by Elizabeth Bowen
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- Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.
- Education is not so important as people think.
- Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.