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L. M. Montgomery

"The ghosts of things that never happened are worse than the ghosts of things that did."

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"The ghosts of things that never happened are worse than the ghosts of things that did."

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"You can't change the past,Aunt Lou used to say.Oh, but I wanted to;that was the one thing I really wanted to do."

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"But it seems she'd wanted children after all, because when she was told she'd been accidentally sterilized she could feel all the light leaking out of her."

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"I will lament your departure. I will hide my shame for having erred on some obscure point, for thinking that the justice of war is the same of peacetime."

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"We were never lovers, and we never will be, now. I do not regret that, however. I regret the conversations we never had, the time we did not spend together. I regret that I never told him that he made me happy, when I was in his company. The world was the better for his being in it. These things alone do I now regret: things left unsaid. And he is gone, and I am old."

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"Don't live in regret! It is such a useless idea.Use the memory to prevent us do bad things!Regret is a childish wish, or an empty hope,trying to revise the bitter memory of the past."

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"We want a fresh start only because we didn't sufficiently care for the last fresh start."

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"When Eleanor Roosevelt was asked if she had any regrets about her life she replied "Just one. I wish I had been prettier.""

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"Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting."

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"That's one of those questions that you think of a better answer for five minutes after you've answered it."

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"The chase of the whirlwind is vanity."

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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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"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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"Then the immortal heart of the woods will beat against ours and its subtle life will steal into our veins and make us its own forever, so that no matter where we go or how widely we wander we shall yet be drawn back to the forest to find our most enduring kinship."
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