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All in all, it was a never-to-be-forgotten summer -- one of those summers which come seldom into any life, but leave a rich heritage of beautiful memories in their going -- one of those summers which, in a fortunate combination of delightful weather, delightful friends and delightful doing, come as near to perfection as anything can come in this world.
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I grew up out of that strange, dreamy childhood of mine and went into the world of reality. I met with experiences that bruised my spirit - but they never harmed my ideal world. That was always mine to retreat into at will. I learned that that world and the real world clashed hopelessly and irreconcilably; and I learned to keep them apart so that the former might remain for me unspoiled. I learned to meet other people on their own ground si..
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The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and storytellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland.
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Gilbert, I'm afraid I'm scandalously in love with you.
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Which would you rather be if you had the choice--divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?
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You see," she concluded miserably, "when I can call like that to him across space--I belong to him. He doesn't love me--he never will--but I belong to him."
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destiny
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teddy-kent
soulmate
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The woods call to us with a hundred voices, but the sea has one only -- a mighty voice that drowns our souls in its majestic music. The woods are human, but the sea is of the company of the archangels.
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Do you think amethysts can be the souls of good violets?
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anne-of-green-gables
violets
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I hate to lend a book I love...it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me...
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Anne: "But have you ever noticed one encouraging thing about me, Marilla? I never make the same mistake twice". Marilla: "I don't know as that's much benefit when you're always making new ones"."
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Anne: "But have you ever noticed one encouraging thing about me, Marilla? I never make the same mistake twice". Marilla: "I don't know as that's much benefit when you're always making new ones"." --
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That is one good thing about this world...there are always sure to be more springs.
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I'm really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.
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Truth exists, only lies have to be invented.
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But I believe I rather like superstitious people. They lend color to life. Wouldn't it be a rather drab world if everybody was wise and sensible . . . and good? What would we find to talk about?
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I've done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by 'the joy of strife'. Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?
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Kindred spirits alone do not change with the changing years.
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Most of the trouble in life comes from misunderstanding, I think,' said Anne.
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I've come home in love with loneliness
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You're never safe from being surprised until you're dead.
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We ought always to try to influence others for good.
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In imagination she sailed over storied seas that wash the distant shining shores of "faery lands forlorn," where lost Atlantis and Elysium lie, with the evening star for pilot, to the land of Heart's Desire. And she was richer in those dreams than in realities; for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
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eternity
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In imagination she sailed over storied seas that wash the distant shining shores of "faery lands forlorn," where lost Atlantis and Elysium lie, with the evening star for pilot, to the land of Heart's Desire. And she was richer in those dreams than in realities; for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal."
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Listen to the trees talking in their sleep,' she whispered, as he lifted her to the ground. 'What nice dreams they must have!
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The beauty of winter is that it makes you appreciate spring.
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Well now, I'd rather have you than a dozen boys, Anne,' said Matthew patting her hand. 'Just mind you that -- rather than a dozen boys. Well now, I guess it wasn't a boy that took the Avery scholarship, was it? It was a girl -- my girl -- my girl that I'm proud of.
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Never be silent with persons you love and distrust," Mr. Carpenter had said once. "Silence betrays."
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Oh, Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them," exclaimed Anne. "You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them. Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.' But I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed."..."
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If it's IN you to climb you must -- there are those who MUST lift their eyes to the hills -- they can't breathe properly in the valleys.
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Besides, I've been feeling a little blue -- just a pale, elusive azure. It isn't serious enough for anything darker.
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I can't cheer up -- I don't want to cheer up. It's nicer to be miserable!
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God's in His heaven, alls right with the world', whispered Anne softly.
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The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn't it?
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Even when I'm alone I have real good company -- dreams and imaginations and pretendings. I like to be alone now and then, just to think over things and taste them. But I love friendships -- and nice, jolly little times with people.
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There is another bend in the road after this. No one knows what will happen.
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Night is beautiful when you are happy--comforting when you are in grief--terrible when you are lonely and unhappy.
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Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive--it's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it? There'd be no scope for imagination then, would there?
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It does not do to laugh at the pangs of youth. They are very terrible because youth has not yet learned that 'this, too, will pass away.
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Jane's stories are too sensible. Then Diana puts too much murders into hers. She says most of the time she doesn't know what to do with the people so she kills them off to get rid of them." -Anne Shirley"
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friends
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I don't want sunbursts and marble halls. I just want YOU. [....] Sunbursts and marble halls may be all very well, but there is more 'scope for imagination' without them. And as for the waiting, that doesn't matter. We'll just be happy, waiting and working for each other--and dreaming. Oh, dreams will be very sweet now.
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I think,' concluded Anne, hitting on a very vital truth, 'that we always love best the people who need us.
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Don't be very frightened, Marilla. I was walking the ridge-pole and I fell off. I suspect I have sprained my ankle. But, Marilla, I might have broken my neck. Let us look on the bright side of things.
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anne-shirley
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Yes, it's beautiful,' said Gilbert, looking steadily down into Anne's uplifted face, 'but wouldn't it have been more beautiful still, Anne, if there had been no separation or misunderstanding . . . if they had come hand in hand all the way through life, with no memories behind them but those which belonged to each other?
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