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Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.
Margaret Drabble
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The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.
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Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.
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The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.
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