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…determined to enjoy her luxury of grief uncomforted.
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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She asked me what made me do such a thing. That is an awkward question because I often can't tell what makes me do things. Sometimes I do them just to find out what I feel like doing them. And sometimes I do them because I want to have some exciting things to tell my grandchildren.
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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 know I haven't much sense or sobriety, but I've got what is ever so much better — the knack of making people like me.
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I have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as a foreshadowing of victory.
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Anne felt instinctively that romance was peeping at her around a corner.
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What is it really like to be engaged? asked Anne curiously. Well, that all depends on who you're engaged to, answered Diana, with that maddening air of superior wisdom always assumed by those who are engaged over those who are not.
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She looks just as music sounds, I think,' answered Anne.
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It seems to me a most dreadful thing to go out of the world and not leave one person behind you who is sorry you are gone,' said Anne, shuddering.
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In daylight I belong to the world . . . in the night to sleep and eternity. But in the dusk I'm free from both and belong only to myself . . . and you
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There is so much in the world for us all if we only have the eyes to see it, and the heart to love it, and the hand to gather it to ourselves--so much in men and women, so much in art and literature, so much everywhere in which to delight, and for which to be thankful.
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The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour.
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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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But feeling is so different from knowing. My common sense tells me all you can say, but there are times when common sense has no power over me. Common nonsense takes possession of my soul.
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