To walk into history is to be free at once, to be at large among people. - Elizabeth Bowen

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Sport is not about being wrapped up in cotton wool. Sport as about adapting to the unexpected and being able to modify plans at the last minute. Sport, like all life, is about taking risks.

Elizabeth Bowen

To walk into history is to be free at once, to be at large among people.

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When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.

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somehow at parties at which one stays standing up one seems to require to be more concentratedly intelligent than one does at those at which one can sit down.

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Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

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We are minor in everything but our passions.

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we can surmount the anger we feel. To find oneself like a young tree inside a tomb is to discover the power to crack the tomb and grow up to any height.

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