The Death of the Heart
Elizabeth Bowen
Top 10 Best Quotes
“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.”
“A romantic man often feels more uplifted with two women than with one: his love seems to hit the ideal mark somewhere between two different faces.”
“She walked about with the rather fated expression you see in photographs of girls who have subsequently been murdered, but nothing had so far happened to her.”
“The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet-when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round.”
“Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.”
“It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home. The need to attach themselves makes wandering people strike roots in a day: wherever we unconsciously feel, we live.”
“One's sentiments -- call them that -- one's fidelities are so instinctive that one hardly knows they exist: only when they are betrayed or, worse still, when one betrays them does one realize their power.”
“The happy passive nature, locked up with itself like a mirror in an airy room, reflects what goes on but demands not to be approached.”
“Some people are moulded by their aspirations, others by their hostilities.”
“For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realisation is something of an ordeal. Expectations are the most perilous form of dream, and when dreams do realise themselves it is in the waking world: the difference is subtly but often painfully felt.”
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