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QuoteWorld :: Darkness :: Elizabeth Bowen
Quotes by Elizabeth Bowen in Darkness category:
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"'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it." 4.1176 average rating Rate this Quote
"It is in this unearthly first hour of spring twilight that earth's almost agonized livingness is most felt. This hour is so dreadful to some people that they hurry indoors and turn on the lights." 4.7500 average rating Rate this Quote







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