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Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't.

Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't.

Elizabeth Bowen
Break Up, Heart, Adequate
Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

Elizabeth Bowen
Long Distance Relationship, Heart, Thinking
Death of the Heart (1938) pt. 2, ch. 2

The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.

Elizabeth Bowen
Heart, Thinking, People
Elizabeth Bowen (2015). “The Death Of The Heart”, p.163, Random House

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