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One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

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One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

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About Elizabeth Bowen

Elizabeth Bowen CBE (; 7 June 1899 – 22 February 1973) was an Irish-British novelist and short story writer notable for her books about the "big house" of Irish landed Protestants as well as her fiction about life in wartime London.