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The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.
Willa Cather
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Willa Cather
Age: 73 †
Born: 1873
Born: December 7
Died: 1947
Died: April 24
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Willa Sibert Cather
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People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find.
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I first met Myra Henshawe when I was fifteen, but I had known her about ever since I could remember anything at all.
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[Mark Twain] is still the rough, awkward, good-natured boy who swore at the deck hands when he was three years old. Thoroughly likeable as a good fellow, but impossible as a man of letters.
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Success is less interesting than struggle. There is great pleasure in the effort.
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The world is always full of brilliant youth which fades into grey and embittered middle age: the first flowering takes everything. The great men are those who have developed slowly, or who have been able to survive the glamour of their early florescence and to go on learning from life.
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The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
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Oh, that's the beauty of the rose, that it blossoms and dies.
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