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For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.

For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.

Elizabeth Bowen
People, Expectations, Realization
Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

There's something so showy about desperation, it takes hard wits to see it's a grandiose form of funk.

Elizabeth Bowen
Hope, Expectations, Desperation
Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

Expectations are the most perilous form of dream, and when dreams do realise themselves it is in the waking world: the difference is subtly but often painfully felt.

Elizabeth Bowen
Dream, Differences, Expectations
Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

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