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Elizabeth Bowen

“But a man must live. Not for nothing do we invest so much of ourselves in other people's lives—or even in momentary pictures of people we do not know. It cuts both ways: the happy group inside the lighted window, the figure in long grass in the orchard seen from the train stay and support us in our dark hours. Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.”

Elizabeth Bowen, The Death of the Heart
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The Death of the Heart The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen
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