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Those who can soar to the highest heights can also plunge to the deepest depths and the natures which enjoy most keenly are those which also suffer most sharply.
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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I suppose all this sounds very crazy — all these terrible emotions always do sound foolish when we put them into our inadequate words. They are not meant to be spoken — only felt and endured.
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They keep coming up new all the time - things to perplex you, you know. You settle one question and there's another right after. There are so many things to be thought over and decided when you're beginning to grow up. It keeps me busy all the time thinking them over and deciding what's right. It's a serious thing to grow up, isn't it, Marilla?
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She will love deeply--suffer terribly--she will have glorious moments to compensate.
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Gilbert darling, don't let's ever be afraid of things. It's such dreadful slavery. Let's be daring and adventurous and expectant. Let's dance to meet life and all it can bring to us, even if it brings scads of trouble and typhoid and twins! (Anne to Gilbert)
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You have the itch for writing born in you. It's quite incurable. What are you going to do with it?
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Children can be the most cruel creatures alive. They have the herd instinct of prejudice against any outsider, and they are merciless in its indulgence.
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The greatest happiness is to sneeze when you want to.
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If it's IN you to climb you must -- there are those who MUST lift their eyes to the hills -- they can't breathe properly in the valleys.
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We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
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I must be getting old ... People are beginning to tell me I look so young. They never tell you that when you are young.
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I must get out all my ambitions and dust them.
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It's the fools that make all the trouble in the world, not the wicked.
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Nathan always believed his wife was trying to poison him but he didn't seem to mind. He said it made life kind of exciting.
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Cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad just when you especially want them to be good.
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I do know my own mind,' protested Anne. 'The trouble is, my mind changes and then I have to get acquainted with it all over again.
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I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.
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Their happiness was in each others keeping, and both were unafraid.
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Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one's life with pomp and blare... Perhaps it crept to one's side like an old friend through quiet ways.
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Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it.
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