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Quote by Elizabeth Bowen
Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hosti

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities. – 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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Experience isnt interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience. – 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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The perfecting of ones self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development. – Confucius

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In the end, it is the person you become, not the things you have achieved, that is the most important. – Les Brown

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Climb mountains to see lowlands. – Chinese Proverb

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