Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.
Elizabeth Bowen
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All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.
Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.
Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.
Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.
It is in this unearthly first hour of spring twilight that earth's almost agonized livingness is most felt. This hour is so dreadful to some people that they hurry indoors and turn on the lights.
It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.
It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home.
No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.
Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.
Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.
Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.
We are minor in everything but our passions.
When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.
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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