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Brief author info: Ivy Compton-Burnett (1892-1969) English writer. Had difficult childhood-governess to eleven siblings, two brothers (including favorite) died, two youngest sisters committed suicide; this background influenced work, marked by themes of parental tyranny, misery, and greed.

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Time is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it seems to, no healing has been necessary.

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There is more difference within the sexes than between them.

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Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

- Bob Marley

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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

- Epictetus

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Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

- Euripides

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I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.

- Jimi Hendrix

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The strongest evidence of love is sacrifice.

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