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Intimacies between women go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending up in small talk without loss of esteem.

— Elizabeth Bowen The Death of the Heart (1939)

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The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We have really no absent friends.

The Death of the Heart (1939)

It is thought that women inspire by their beauty; more often they do so by their longings.

A Time in Rome (1960)

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself — in fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.

The Death of the Heart (1939)

There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.

The House in Paris (1935)

Cicero, in invoking the law of heaven, invoked what was by nature of heaven: law — inviolable principle, better than the vacillating gods.

A Time in Rome (1960)

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