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I am well in body although considerable rumpled up in spirit.
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 read somewhere once that souls were like flowers,' said Priscilla. 'Then your soul is a golden narcissus,' said Anne, 'and Diana's is like a red, red rose. Jane's is an apple blossom, pink and wholesome and sweet.' 'And our own is a white violet, with purple streaks in its heart,' finished Priscilla.
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After all, Anne had said to Marilla once, I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.
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That's the worst…or the best…of real life, Anne. It won't let you be miserable. It keeps on trying to make you comfortable…and succeeding…even when you're determined to be unhappy and romantic.
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Words aren't made — they grow,' said Anne.
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But she had long ago learned that when she wandered into the realm of fancy she must go alone. The way to it was by an enchanted path where not even her dearest might follow her.
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I wish every one in the world was as warm and sheltered as we are tonight.
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I am simply a book drunkard.
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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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There is no such thing as freedom on earth, he said. Only different kinds of bondages. And comparative bondages. YOU think you are free now because you've escaped from a peculiarly unbreakable kind of bondage. But are you? You love me - THAT'S a bondage.
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I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday sweet and fragrant, between its leaves.
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You must pay the penalty of growing-up, Paul. You must leave fairyland behind you.
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Death grows friendlier as we grow older.
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never write a line you'd be ashamed to read at your own funeral.
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There is another bend in the road after this. No one knows what will happen.
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In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.
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In everything you do aim to excel for what is worth doing is worth doing well
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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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It's not vanity to know your own good points. It would just be stupidity if you didn't It's only vanity when you get puffed up about them.
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Mrs. Cadbury: Tell me what you know about yourself. Anne Shirley: Well, it really isn't worth telling, Mrs. Cadbury... but if you let me tell you what I IMAGINE about myself you'd find it a lot more interesting.
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