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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The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust. – Elizabeth Bowen

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

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The self cannot be escaped, but it can be, with ingenuity and hard work, distracted. – Donald Barthelme

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The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been kindness, beauty, and truth. – Albert Einstein, Ideas and Opinions

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A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. – Chinese Proverb

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