Ivy Compton-Burnett Quotes
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I never know why self-sacrifice is noble. Why is it better to sacrifice oneself than someone else?
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A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life.
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There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.
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Our desires have a way of getting bigger with our incomes.
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People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.
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Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.
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There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.
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My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.
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It is in our minds that we live much of our life.
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There is danger in courage. Cowardice is a power for good. We hardly know what it prevents.
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Real life seems to have no plots.