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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.Elizabeth Bowen
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She posed as being more indolent than she felt, for fear of finding herself less able than she could wish.Elizabeth Bowen
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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.Elizabeth Bowen
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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.Elizabeth Bowen