Courage Quote by Elizabeth Bowen

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“Proust has pointed out that the predisposition to love creates its own objects; is this not also true of fear?”

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Temperamentally, the writer exists on happenings, on contacts, conflicts, action and reaction, speed, pressure, tension. Were he acontemplative purely, he would not write.

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“Are you really an orphan? Yes, I am, said Portia a shade shortly. Are you? No, not at present, but I suppose it's a…

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It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home.

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Every love has a poetic relevance of its own; each love brings to light only what to it is relevant. Outside lies the junk-yard…

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without fiction, either life would be insufficient or the winds from the north would blow too cold.

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One's sentiments -- call them that -- one's fidelities are so instinctive that one hardly knows they exist: only when they are betrayed or,…

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Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily…

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To walk into history is to be free at once, to be at large among people.

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The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part of one's self-respect.

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Convention was our safeguard: could one have stronger?

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“First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over the rut of living, making him all looks, silences,…

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to leap is not only to leap, it is to hit the ground somewhere.

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“Of all the train, none escaped except Wamba, who showed upon the occasion much more courage than those who pretended to greater sense.”

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The four Cs of making dreams come true: Curiosity, Courage, Consistency, Confidence.

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Have the courage to go against the tide of current values that do not conform to the path of Jesus.

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