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To fulfil the dreams of one's youth that is the best that can happen to a man. No worldly success can take the place of that.
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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All Southern women wished of their menfolk was simply to be 'like Paris handsome and like Hector brave'.
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That is happiness to be dissolved into something complete and great.
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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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Ugly accidents happen . . . always have and always will. But the failures are swept back into the pile and forgotten. They don`t leave any lasting scar in the world, and they don`t affect the future. The things that last are the good things. The people who forge ahead and do something, they really count.
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The great fact in life, the always possible escape from dullness, was the lake. The sun rose out of it, the day began there it was like an open door that nobody could shut. The land and all its dreariness could never close in on you. You had only to look at the lake, and you knew you would soon be free.
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She had certain thoughts which were like companions, ideas which were like older and wiser friends.
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I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.
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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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Religion is different from everything else because in religion seeking is finding.
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Youth, art, love, dreams, true-heartedness - why must they go out of the summer world into darkness?
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Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world but here the earth was the floor of the sky.
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Yet the summer which was to change everything was coming nearer every day. When boys and girls are growing up, life can't stand still, not even in the quietest of country towns and they have to grow up, whether they will or no. That is what their elders are always forgetting.
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