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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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An old house with its windows gone always makes me think of something dead with its eyes picked out.
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Without shedding of blood there is no anything. Everything, it seems to me, has to be purchased by selfsacrifice. Our race has marked every step of its painful ascent with blood. And now torrents of it must flow again.
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When one great passion seizes possession of the soul all other feelings are crowded out.
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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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Oh, Marilla, I thought I was happy before. Now I know that I just dreamed a pleasant dream of happiness. This is the reality.
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I have a dream, he said slowly. I persist in dreaming it, although it has often seemed to me that it could never come true. I dream of a home with a hearth-fire in it, a cat and dog, the footsteps of friends -- and YOU!
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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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One can't get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
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After all, what could you expect from a pig but a grunt?
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It was less humiliating to admit crying because of your feet than because - because somebody had been amusing himself with you and your friends had forgotten you, and other people patronised you.
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Their happiness was in each others keeping, and both were unafraid.
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I suppose it was a romantic was to perish... for a mouse
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But [sorrows] won't get the better of you if you face 'em together with love and trust. You can weather any storm with them two for compass and pilot.
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We don't know where we're going, but isn't is fun to go?
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How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.
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But was anything in life, Anne asked herself wearily, like one's imagination of it?
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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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Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.
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I don't know that she is as amusing as she was when she was a child, but she makes me love her and I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble in making myself love them.
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