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My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Lucy Maud Montgomery
Age: 67 †
Born: 1874
Born: November 30
Died: 1942
Died: April 24
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“You 're not eating anything,” said Marilla sharply, eying her as if it were a serious shortcoming. Anne sighed. “I can 't. I'm in the depths of despair. Can you eat when you are in the depths of despair?”
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We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great.
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We've had a beautiful friendship, Diana. We've never marred it by one quarrel or coolness or unkind word and I hope it will always be so. But things can't be quite the same after this. You'll have other interests. I'll just be on the outside.
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I wish every one in the world was as warm and sheltered as we are tonight.
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Truth exists, only lies have to be invented.
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…always felt the pain of her friends so keenly that she could not speak easy, fluent words of comforting. Besides, she remembered how well-meant speeches had hurt her in her own sorrow and was afraid.
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Since ever the world was spinning And till the world shall end You've your man in the beginning Or you have him in the end, But to have him from start to finish And neither nor borrow nor lend Is what all of the girls are wanting And none of the gods can send
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I like to hear a storm at night. It is so cosy to snuggle down among the blankets and feel that it can't get at you.
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That is one consolation when you are poor—there are so many more things you can imagine about.
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We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self denial, anxiety and discouragement.
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I don't know which is worse - to have somebody you DON'T like ask you to marry him or NOT have some one you DO like. Both are rather unpleasant.
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The only true animal is a cat, and the only true cat is a gray cat.
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…I think,' concluded Anne, hitting on a very vital truth, 'that we always love best the people who need us.
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But I just went to work and imagined that I had on the most beautiful pale blue silk dress - because when you are imagining you might as well imagine something worth while.
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After all, what could you expect from a pig but a grunt?
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You must pay the penalty of growing-up, Paul. You must leave fairyland behind you.
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I love them, they are so nice and selfish. Dogs are TOO good and unselfish. They make me feel uncomfortable. But cats are gloriously human.
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The little things of life, sweet and excellent in their place, must not be the things lived for the highest must be sought and followed the life of heaven must be begun here on earth.
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I've always loved the night and I'll like lying awake and thinking over everything in life, past, present and to come. Especially to come.
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I can't cheer up — I don't want to cheer up. It's nicer to be miserable!
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