Marjorie Bowen quotes
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“Does one ever see any ghost that is not oneself?”
-- Marjorie BowenSource : Marjorie Bowen (1948). “Mignonette: A Novel”
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“Flattery is so necessary to us that we flatter one another just to be flattered in return.”
-- Marjorie BowenSource : Marjorie Bowen (1938). “World's Wonder and Other Essays”
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“Even a fool can deceive a man - if he be a bigger fool than himself.”
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“what a rope of sand we are without a leader ...”
-- Marjorie BowenSource : Marjorie Bowen (1907). “The Master of Stair”
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“It is more difficult ... to rule the King's favorites than for the favorites to rule the King.”
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“I think sometimes - do not we all? - that perhaps the present year is my last year and that all my busyness is foolish.”
-- Marjorie BowenSource : Marjorie Bowen (1951). “To Bed at Noon”
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“God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.”
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“You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.”
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“History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines.”
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“Perhaps we always want the person we love, to have the existence of a ghost.”
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“It takes loneliness in oneself to recognize it in another.”
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“To lose faith in oneself is to cease to create; to cease to create is to cease to exist.”
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Source : Andre Gide (2015). “The Immoralist”, p.8, Lulu Press, Inc
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