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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope it is

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

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Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk. – Elizabeth Bowen

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Women
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Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain. – Elizabeth Bowen

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War
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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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Hope
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The great hope of society is in individual character. – William Ellery Channing

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Hope

In fact, it works the other way: A government as big and bossy as this one is maintained on the backs of the middle class and those who hope to join it. – Mitch Daniels

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Hope

One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them. – Thomas Jefferson

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Hope

Yesterday I was a dog. Today Im a dog. Tomorrow Ill probably still be a dog. Sigh! Theres so little hope for advancement. – Charles M. Schulz

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Hope

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Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue. – Adam Clarke

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We must all learn a good lesson – how to live together. That is the new challenge of the new world… learning to co-exist and not co-annihilate. – Jesse Jackson

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