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Quote by Ingrid Bengis

“Even the most ordinary life is a mystery if you look close enough.”

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Ingrid Bengis is a writer born in 1944. Her works span various literary genres, including novels, poetry, and drama. Bengis is known for her unique narrative style and profound insights into human emotions. more

“Californians have brought suburb-making almost to an art. Their cities and their country-side are equally suburban. No-one has a country house in California; no-one has a city house. It is good to see trees always from city windows, but it is not so good always to see houses from country windows.”

Art Country House Sides Cities Tree Window California Suburbs Californians Country Houses

Book:The Poor Man

Source: The Poor Man

“The dense and godly wear consistency as a flower, the imaginative fling it joyfully behind them.”

Change Behinds Flower Routine Consistency Godly Imaginative Dense Fling

Book:I Pose

Source: I Pose

“What is this Charity, this clinking of money between strangers, and when did Charity cease to be a comforting and secret thing between one friend and another? Does Love make her voice heard through a committee, does Love employ an almoner to convey her message to her neighbor? ... The real Love knows her neighbor face to face, and laughs with him and weeps with him, and eats and drinks with him, so that at last, when his black day dawns, she may share with him, not what she can spare, but all that she has.”

Knows May Doe Real Lasts Faces Black Voice Secret Laughing Heard Share Drink Messages Charity Stranger Neighbor Cease Dawn Real Love Spares Committees Comforting Face To Face One Friend Black Day

Book:Living Alone

Source: Living Alone

“The moment of cocoa-drinking was always the moment of confidences.”

Moments Drinking Chocolate Cocoa

Book:I Pose

Source: I Pose

“a committee, of course, exists for the purpose of damping enthusiasms.”

Purpose Courses Enthusiasm Committees

Book:Living Alone

Source: Living Alone

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