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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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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We find comfort among those who agree with us-growth among those who dont. – Frank A. Clark

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When a bonsai stops growing, you know its dead. – Japanese Proverb

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Love dies only when growth stops. – Pearl Buck

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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion. – Matthew Arnold

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