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Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Age: 94 †
Born: 1906
Born: June 22
Died: 2001
Died: February 7
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Anne Morrow
Anne Spencer Morrow
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Anne Spencer Lindbergh
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Who is not afraid of pure space - that breathtaking empty space of an open door?
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the issue of war or peace is an issue that concerns not only experts on Foreign Affairs but every citizen of the United States.
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The plane seems exultant now, even arrogant. We did it, we did it! We're up, above you. We were dependant on you just now, prisoners fawning on you for favors, for wind and light. But now, we are free. We are up! We are off! Like someone singing ecstatically, climbing, soaring- a sustained note of power and joy.
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Frenchwomen just never look ungroomed, do they?
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One can never pay in gratitude one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life.
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God may want you to be the answer to your own prayer.
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The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.
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People don't want to be understood - I mean not completely. It's too destructive. Then they haven't anything left. They don't want complete sympathy or complete understanding. They want to be treated carelessly and taken for granted lots of times.
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People talk about love as if it were something you could give, like an armful of flowers.
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Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves.
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We are always bargaining with our feelings so that we can live from day to day.
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The fundamental magic of flying, a miracle that has nothing to do with any of its practical purposes - purposes of speed, accessibility, and convenience - and will not change as they change.
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We tend not to choose the unknown, which might be a shock or a disappointment or simply a little difficult to cope with. An yet it is the unknown with all its disappointments and surprises that is the most enriching.
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The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much of social life is exhausting one is wearing a mask. I have shed my mask.
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Why do progress and beauty have to be so opposed?
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This is what one thirsts for, I realize, after the smallness of the day, of work, of details, of intimacy - even of communication, one thirsts for the magnitude and universality of a night full of stars, pouring into one like a fresh tide.
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Too many people, too many demands, too much to do competent, busy, hurrying people - It just isn't living at all.
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Can you write a book and have children at the same time? Yes, if you're content to do it very very slowly.
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When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race.
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I am most anxious to give my own children enough love and understanding so that they won't grow up with an aching void in them--like you and I and Harold and Martha. That can never be filled, and one goes around all one's life trying, trying to make up for what one didn't get that was one's birthright, asking the wrong people for it.
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