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Anne of the Island (1915)
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We've had a beautiful friendship, Diana. We've never marred it by one quarrel or coolness or unkind word; and I hope it will always be so. But things can't be quite the same after this. You'll have other interests. I'll just be on the outside.
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People told her she hadn't changed much, in a tone which hinted they were surprised and a little disappointed she hadn't.
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War was a hellish, horrible hideous thing - too horrible and hideous to happen in the twentieth century between civilised nations.
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It's bad enough to feel insignificant, but it's unbearable to have it grained into your soul that you will never, can never, be anything but insignificant…
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I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday sweet and fragrant, between its leaves.
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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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The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour.
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It always amazes me to look at the little, wrinkled brown seeds and think of the rainbows in 'em," said Captain Jim. "When I ponder on them seeds I don't find it nowise hard to believe that we've got souls that'll live in other worlds. You couldn't hardly believe there was life in them tiny things, some no bigger than grains of dust, let alone colour and scent, if you hadn't seen the miracle, could you?
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I believe I've put forth a tiny soul-root into Kingsport soil this afternoon. I hope so. I hate to feel transplanted.
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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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We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.
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That's the worst…or the best…of real life, Anne. It won't let you be miserable. It keeps on trying to make you comfortable…and succeeding…even when you're determined to be unhappy and romantic.
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Was anything in life, Anne asked herself wearily, like one's imagination of it?
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It was November—the month of crimson sunsets, parting birds, deep, sad hymns of the sea, passionate wind-songs in the pines. Anne roamed through the pineland alleys in the park and, as she said, let that great sweeping wind blow the fogs out of her soul.
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It's so dreadful to have nothing to love — life is so empty — and there's nothing worse than emptiness…
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It is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by a happiness that is not your own.
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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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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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A broken heart in real life isn't half as dreadful as it is in books. It's a good deal like a bad tooth, though you won't think THAT a very romantic simile. It takes spells of aching and gives you a sleepless night now and then, but between times it lets you enjoy life and dreams and echoes and peanut candy as if there were nothing the matter with it.
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When one great passion seizes possession of the soul all other feelings are crowded out.
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It was less humiliating to admit crying because of your feet than because - because somebody had been amusing himself with you and your friends had forgotten you, and other people patronised you.
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Nobody whom this war has touched will ever be happy again in quite the same way. But it will be a better happiness, I think, little sister - a happiness we've earned.
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Poor soul, she always knew everything about her neighbors, but she never was very well acquainted with herself.
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That's one of the things we learn as we grow older — how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty.
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Born:
November 30, 1874
Died:
April 24, 1942
(aged 67)
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