All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.

Quote by Elizabeth Bowen

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First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over...

First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over...

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought

Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that...

Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that...

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live,...

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live,...

The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do...

The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do...

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

Language is a mixture of statement and evocation

Language is a mixture of statement and evocation

Good-byes breed a sort of distaste for whomever you say good-bye to; this hurts, you...

Good-byes breed a sort of distaste for whomever you say good-bye to; this hurts, you...

Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would I'd never leave.

Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would I'd never leave.

I've been going to shopping malls since I was on General Hospital.

I've been going to shopping malls since I was on General Hospital.

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that...

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that...

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that...

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that...

Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again.

Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again.

I don't know how you say good-bye to whom and what you love. I don't...

I don't know how you say good-bye to whom and what you love. I don't...

True love doesn't have a happy ending, because true love never ends. Letting go is...

True love doesn't have a happy ending, because true love never ends. Letting go is...

One of the most painful goodbyes is when you know that the next time you...

One of the most painful goodbyes is when you know that the next time you...

The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye, the story of...

The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye, the story of...

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

Forever has 7 letters, but so does goodbye....

Forever has 7 letters, but so does goodbye....