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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 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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Memory
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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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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope it is impossible. – Elizabeth Bowen

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Hope
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Hate the sin and love the sinner. – Mohandas Gandhi

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Undoubtedly the desire for food has been and still is one of the main causes of political events. – Bertrand Russell

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Miscellaneous

There are times when forgetting can be just as important as remembering — and even more difficult. – Harry and Joan Mier, Happiness Begins Before Breakfast

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Miscellaneous

It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to. – George Santayana

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Miscellaneous

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