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For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realizati

For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal. – Elizabeth Bowen

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The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart. – Elizabeth Bowen

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