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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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Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. – Jonathan Swift, “Thoughts on Various Subjects,” Miscellanies, 1711

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Miscellaneous

A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal. – William Allen White

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Miscellaneous

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. – Marcus Aurelius Antonius

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Miscellaneous

Beginnings are apt to be shadowy. – Rachel Carson

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Miscellaneous

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The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion. – Lamar S. Smith

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Sometimes, perhaps, we are allowed to get lost that we may find the right person to ask directions of. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Fate

Beauty… when you look into a woman’s eyes and see what is in her heart. – Nate Dircks

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Beauty

The beautiful thing about hip-hop is its like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and itll be a hip-hop song. Thats the only music you can do that with. – Talib Kweli

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Music