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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

Other quotes by Elizabeth Bowen

There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone. – Elizabeth Bowen

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alone
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Elizabeth Bowen
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The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart. – Elizabeth Bowen

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Absence
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Elizabeth Bowen
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Hope
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I know where Im going and I have told the French. I am sure if hope is there, we will be able to put France back on its feet… to live better in five years than we do today. – Francois Hollande

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I hope I have important things to say. – Elizabeth Edwards

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Hope

I hope the seeds I have sown will be taken up by those who will follow me because the journey I have begun cannot be undertaken in isolation. – Evelyn Glennie

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Hope

So we just hope that all of these governors who are grappling will be able to provide the basic services to our citizens and not have to cut things that really are painful. – Jennifer Granholm

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In search of my mothers garden, I found my own. – Alice Walker

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Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health. – Thomas Tusser

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I have a womans instinct and its always a good one. – Princess of Wales Diana

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A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine. – John Gay

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