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That is happiness to be dissolved into something complete and great.

Willa Cather

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Willa Cather
Age: 73 †
Born: 1873
Born: December 7
Died: 1947
Died: April 24
Author
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Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Poet
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Willa Sibert Cather
Purpose
Happiness
Spiritual
Great
Dissolved
Something
Dissolving
Spirituality
Complete

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