First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over the rut of living, making him all looks, silences, gestures, attitudes, a burning phrase with no context

Quote by Elizabeth Bowen

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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,...

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

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

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

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...

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...

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

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

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find...

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find...

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...

Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very...

Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very...

I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.

I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.

Innocence plays in the backyard of ignorance

Innocence plays in the backyard of ignorance

Respondent's expectation that his garden was protected from observation is unreasonable and is not an...

Respondent's expectation that his garden was protected from observation is unreasonable and is not an...

Innocence is always unsuspicious.

Innocence is always unsuspicious.

Mystery and innocence are not akin

Mystery and innocence are not akin

The few wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight...

The few wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight...

It's not your client's obligation, or your obligation, to prove your client's innocence. It is...

It's not your client's obligation, or your obligation, to prove your client's innocence. It is...

Innocence is lucky if it finds the same protection as guilt

Innocence is lucky if it finds the same protection as guilt

Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement:...

Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement:...

Lee was such a fine, high-class boy. If my son killed the president he would...

Lee was such a fine, high-class boy. If my son killed the president he would...