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Quote by Elizabeth Bowen
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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Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. Ones relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain. – Elizabeth Bowen

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Loneliness
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Elizabeth Bowen
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There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone. – Elizabeth Bowen

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alone
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Elizabeth Bowen
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The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever. – Anatole France

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Every problem contains within itself the seeds of its own solution. – Edward Somers

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Little things console us because little things afflict us. – Blaise Pascal

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No healthy civilization can ever be reared on a foundation of devitalized work. – William Ralph Inge

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