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We don't know where we're going, but isn't is fun to go?

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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New London
Prince Edward Island
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When I left Queen's my future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I don't know what lies around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the best does.
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But just think what a dull world it would be if everyone was sensible,' pleaded Anne.
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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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Tears don't hurt like the ache does.
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If a kiss could be seen I think it would look like a violet,' said Priscilla. Anne glowed. 'I'm so glad you spoke that thought, Priscilla, instead of just thinking it and keeping it to yourself. This world would be a much more interesting place…although it is very interesting, anyhow…if people spoke out their real thoughts.
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Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
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…determined to enjoy her luxury of grief uncomforted.
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Steal not this book for fear of shame For on it is the owners name And when you die the Lord will say Where is the book you stole away And when you say you do not know The Lord will say go down below.
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I must be getting old ... People are beginning to tell me I look so young. They never tell you that when you are young.
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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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That is one consolation when you are poor—there are so many more things you can imagine about.
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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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We came to the comforting conclusion that the Creator probably knew how to run His universe quite as well as we do, and that, after all, there are no such things as 'wasted' lives, saving and except when am individual wilfully squanders and wastes his own life.
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Dramatic things always have a bitterness for some one.
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It's great to be great, but it's great to be human.
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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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The greatest happiness is to sneeze when you want to.
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The only true animal is a cat, and the only true cat is a gray cat.
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I am well in body although considerable rumpled up in spirit.
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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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