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“Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them-- that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.”

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“My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.”

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“There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be half so interesting.”

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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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“Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it.”

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“It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”

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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 know all about everything, would it? There'd be no scope for imagination then, would there?But am I talking too much? People are always telling me I do. Would you rather I didn't talk? If you say so I'll stop. I can STOP when I make up my mind to it, although it's difficult.”

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“Anne always remembered the silvery, peaceful beauty and fragrant calm of that night. It was the last night before sorrow touched her life; and no life is ever quite the same again when once that cold, sanctifying touch has been laid upon it.”

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“It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.”

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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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“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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“But really, Marilla, one can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?”

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“I don't know, I don't want to talk as much. (...) It's nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one's heart, like treasures. I don't like to have them laughed at or wondered over.”

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“Why must people kneel down to pray? If I really wanted to pray I’ll tell you what I'd do. I'd go out into a great big field all alone or in the deep, deep woods and I'd look up into the sky—up—up—up—into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness. And then I'd just feel a prayer.”

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“Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.”

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“God's in His heaven, alls right with the world', whispered Anne softly.”

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“I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”

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“But if you call me Anne, please call me Anne with an 'e'.”

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“There must be a limit to the mistakes one person can make, and when I get to the end of them, then I'll be through with them. That's a comforting thought”

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“Do you think amethysts can be the souls of good violets?”

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“It's delightful when your imaginations come true, isn't it?”

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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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“People who haven’t red hair don’t know what trouble is.”

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“You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair," said Anne reproachfully. "People who haven't red hair don't know what trouble is.”

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“But pearls are for tears, the old legend says," Gilbert had objected. "I'm not afraid of that. And tears can be happy as well as sad. My very happiest moments have been when I had tears in my eyes—when Marilla told me I might stay at Green Gables—when Matthew gave me the first pretty dress I ever had—when I heard that you were going to recover from the fever. So give me pearls for our troth ring, Gilbert, and I'll willingly accept the sorrow of life with its joy." -Anne”

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“Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it.”

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“Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one's life with pomp and blare... Perhaps it crept to one's side like an old friend through quiet ways.”

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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.”

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