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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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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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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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I will not die an unlived life…. I choose to risk my significance; to live so that which comes to me as seed goes to the next as blossom and that which comes to me as blossom, goes on as fruit. – Dawna Markova

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We look for some reward of our endeavours and are disappointed; not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts to do well. – Robert Louis Stevenson, “Pulvis et umbra,” 1888

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People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not. – Neil Postman

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Miscellaneous

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor. – Henry David Thoreau

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Miscellaneous

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It is in an old kitchen that the best food is made. – French Proverb

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Theres no such thing as failure – just waiting for success. – John Osborne

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Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth. – E. T. Bell

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One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories. – Philip J. Davis

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