Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one … - Elizabeth Bowen

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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 seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain.

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Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen (June 7 1899 – February 22 1973) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer.

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Alternative Names: Elisabeth Bowen • Elizabeth (Dorothea Cole) Bowen

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