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Who would endure life if it were not for the hope of death?
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 wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.
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Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help.
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I love to smell flowers in the dark, she said. You get hold of their soul then.
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Their happiness was in each others keeping, and both were unafraid.
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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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You noticed that I wore this outfit twice? Why, the only thing you wear twice is a sour expression.
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The night was clear and frosty, all ebony of shadow and silver of snowy slope big stars were shining over the silent fields here and there the dark pointed firs stood up with snow powdering their branches and the wind whistling through them.
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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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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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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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There be three gentle and goodlie things, To be here, To be together, And to think well of one another.
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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'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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That's a lovely idea, Diana,' said Anne enthusiastically. 'Living so that you beautify your name, even if it wasn't beautiful to begin with…making it stand in people's thoughts for something so lovely and pleasant that they never think of it by itself. Thank you, Diana.
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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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Tears don't hurt like the ache does.
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A house isn't a home without the ineffable contentment of a cat with its tail folded about its feet. A cat gives mystery, charm, suggestion.
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It's the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can't cope with it.
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To love is easy and therefore common - but to understand - how rare it is!
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