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To love is easy and therefore common - but to understand - how rare it is!
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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Why did dusk and fir-scent and the afterglow of autumnal sunsets make people say absurd things?
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All pioneers are considered to be afflicted with moonstruck madness.
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We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
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We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great.
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Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse.
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She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend - as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.
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I feel as though someone's handed me the moon... and I don't exactly know what to do with it.
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...the sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by far the hardest to bear.
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We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self denial, anxiety and discouragement.
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She wanted to be alone - to think things out - to adjust herself, if it were possible, to the new world in which she seemed to have been transplanted with a suddenness and completeness that left her half bewildered to her own identity.
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Nothing ever seems impossible in spring, you know.
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Don't try to write anything you can't feel - it will be a failure - 'echoes nothing worth
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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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Don't be ridiculous, please.' The most insulting words in the world!
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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 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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People who don't like cats always seem to think there is some peculiar virtue in not liking them.
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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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I'd like to add some beauty to life, said Anne dreamily. I don't exactly want to make people KNOW more... though I know that IS the noblest ambition... but I'd love to make them have a pleasanter time because of me... to have some little joy or happy thought that would never have existed if I hadn't been born.
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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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