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"When I read that the flash came, and I took a sheet of paper. . .and I wrote on it: I, Emily Byrd Starr, do solemnly vow this day that I will climb the Alpine Path and write my name on the scroll of fame."
Aspiration
"It takes all sorts of people to make a world, as I've often heard, but I think there are some who could be spared,' Anne told her reflection in the east gable mirror that night."
Society
"Never be silent with persons you love and distrust," Mr. Carpenter had said once. "Silence betrays."
Trust
"It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable."
Society
"Aunt Elizabeth said, 'Do you expect to attend many balls, if I may ask?' and I said, 'Yes, when I am rich and famous.' and Aunt Elizabeth said, 'Yes, when the moon is made of green cheese."
Dreams
"Look, do you see that poem?' she said suddenly, pointing."
Art
"You have the itch for writing born in you. It's quite incurable. What are you going to do with it?"
Creativity
"But tonight is a gusty, hurrying night . . . even the clouds racing over the sky are in a hurry and the moonlight that gushes out between them is in a hurry to flood the world."
Nature
"Isn't it queer that the things we writhe over at night are seldom wicked things? Just humiliating ones."
Reflection
"I never fancied cats much till I found the First Mate," he remarked, to the accompaniment of the Mate's tremendous purrs. "I saved his life, and when you've saved a creature's life you're bound to love it. It's next thing to giving life."
Love
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"Hatred may keep a body warm, but it takes a lot to keep the fire stoked, so unless a person is extraordinary in some way, some people are not worth hating, just like they're not worth loving."
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"Oh, I don't wonder babies always cry when they wake up in the night. So often I want to do it too."
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"Don't you get it? You can't tell me what to feel."
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"Though I knew how this failure would hurt you, I had to fold like a grey moth and let go.You could not believe I was more than your echo."
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"Ilse was suffering so keenly that she wanted to arraign the universe at the bar of her pain."
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"I suppose all this sounds very crazy - all these terrible emotions always do sound foolish when we put them into our inadequate words. They are not meant to be spoken - only felt and endured."
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"Pain was a torn piece of paper."
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"The lonely people have taught me, that I am not alone."
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"I was tired of her getting away with being so young."
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"But I was - not quite happy. Pending happy. I knew this was not really my life, it was a borrowed life. One that I was temporarily wearing until I could sort out my own."
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