You are nothing but a doll. Nothing but a doll -- doll -- doll! You care for nothing. You are stuffed with sawdust. You never had a heart. Nothing could ever make you feel. You are a doll!

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Neither do I -- to speak truth. But I suppose there might be good in things, even if we don't see it.

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Whatever comes cannot alter one thing.

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Perhaps you can feel if you can’t hear,” was her fancy. “Perhaps kind thoughts reach people somehow, even through windows and doors and walls. Perhaps you feel a little warm and comforted, and don’t know why, when I am standing here in the cold and hoping you will get well and happy again.

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Mots clés thoughts a-little-princess frances-hodgson-burnett

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I dare say it is rather hard to be a rat,” she mused. “Nobody likes you. People jump and run away and scream out: ‘Oh, a horrid rat!’ I shouldn’t like people to scream and jump and say: ‘Oh, a horrid Sara!’ the moment they saw me, and set traps for me, and pretend they were dinner. It’s so different to be a sparrow. But nobody asked this rat if he wanted to be a rat when he was made. Nobody said: ‘Wouldn’t you rather be a sparrow?

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Mots clés life choice a-little-princess frances-hodgson-burnett

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I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden.

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Mots clés writing inspiration craft

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Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?"...
"It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine...

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Mots clés beauty children nature classic spring

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She made herself stronger by fighting with the wind.

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The truth is that when one is still a child-or even if one is grown up- and has been well fed, and has slept long and softly and warm; when one has gone to sleep in the midst of a fairy story, and has wakened to find it real, one cannot be unhappy or even look as if one were; and one could not, if one tried, keep a glow of joy out of one's eyes.

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But I suppose there might be good in things, even if we don't see it.

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