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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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Anne laughed and sighed. She felt very old and mature and wise — which showed how young she was.
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Rilla's heart skipped a beat — or, if that be a physiological impossibility, she thought it did.
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People who don't like cats always seem to think there is some peculiar virtue in not liking them.
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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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The little things of life, sweet and excellent in their place, must not be the things lived for the highest must be sought and followed the life of heaven must be begun here on earth.
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When I think something nice is going to happen I seem to fly right up on the wings of anticipation and then the first thing I realize I drop down to earth with a thud. But really, Marilla, the flying part is glorious as long as it lasts. . . it's like soaring through a sunset. I think it almost pays for the thud.
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There is a book of Revelation in every one's life, as there is in the Bible.
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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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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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Nothing mattered much to me for a time there, after you told me you could never love me, Anne. There was nobody else -- there never could be anybody else for me but you. I've loved you ever since that day you broke your slate over my head in school.
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You must pay the penalty of growing-up, Paul. You must leave fairyland behind you.
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Have you ever noticed that when people say it is their duty to tell you a certain thing you may prepare for something disagreeable? Why is it that they never seem to think it a duty to tell you the pleasant things they hear about you?
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Do you know, Gilbert, there are times when I strongly suspect that I love you!
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There might be some hours of loneliness. But there was something wonderful even in loneliness. At least you belonged to yourself when you were lonely.
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The only thing I envy about a cat is its purr, remarked Dr. Blythe once, listening to Doc's resonant melody. It is the most contented sound in the world.
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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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But I just went to work and imagined that I had on the most beautiful pale blue silk dress - because when you are imagining you might as well imagine something worth while.
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You are the only person who loves me in the world, said Elizabeth. When you talk to me I smell violets.
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We don't know where we're going, but isn't is fun to go?
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I know you're a fool, Jim Hardy, but for heaven's sake pretend you're not for five minutes.
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