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Kate Greenaway
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“The You I loved was my creation — mine, / Without a counterpart within yourself. / I gave you thoughts and soul and heart / Taken from Love's ideal.”
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“A conscience is a troublesome thing at times. I woke up at 4 o'clock this morning and I spent the time feeling what a nothing I was, and wishing I was so very different. Then the morning's post brought me a letter from a friend, saying I was so this, so that — it made me really cry, I was so grateful.”
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“A woman once said to me, 'Any religion that is to be any good to one must be one they make for themselves,' — and it is so. She, curiously, was a clergyman's wife.”
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“Things are so beautiful and wonderful, you feel there must be another life where you will see more — hear more — and know more. All of it cannot die.”
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“I can never define what art really is ... it's a queer giving something to nature that is possible for nature to have, but always has not — at least that's my idea.”
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“How different everything is when you are with the right people!”
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“Everyone seems possessed with the desire of writing articles upon me and sends me long lists of all I am to say.”
Kate Greenaway, English children's book writer/illustrator
(1846 - 1901)