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

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

Elizabeth Bowen
People, History, Walks
ELIZABETH BOWEN (1935). “The House in Paris”

As a novelist, I cannot occupy myself with "characters," or at any rate central ones, who lack panache, in one or another sense, who would be incapable of a major action or a major passion, or who have not a touch of the ambiguity, the ultimate unaccountability, the enlarging mistiness of persons "in history." History, as more austerely I now know it, is not romantic. But I am.

Elizabeth Bowen
Passion, Character, History

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