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One can suffer a convulsion of one's entire nature, and, unless it makes some noise, no one notices. It's not just that we are incurious; we completely lack any sense of each other's existences.

One can suffer a convulsion of one's entire nature, and, unless it makes some noise, no one notices. It's not just that we are incurious; we completely lack any sense of each other's existences.

Elizabeth Bowen
Suffering, Noise, Indifference

We desert those who desert us; we cannot afford to suffer; we must live how we can.

Elizabeth Bowen
Survival, Suffering, Desert
Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

Also, perhaps children are sterner than grown-up people in their refusal to suffer, in their refusal, even, to feel at all.

Elizabeth Bowen
Children, People, Suffering
Elizabeth Bowen (2015). “Bowen's Court & Seven Winters”, p.205, Random House

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