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Love itself draws on a woman nearly all the bad luck in the world
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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There was only - spring itself, the throb of it, the light restlessness, the vital essence of it everywhere in the sky, in the swift clouds, in the pale sunshine, and in the warm high wind - rising suddenly, sinking suddenly, impulsive ... If I had been tossed down blindfold on that red prairie, I should have known that it was spring.
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If we never arrived anywhere, it did not matter. Between that earth and that sky i felt erased, blotted out. I did not say my prayers that night: here, i felt what would be would be.
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What if - what if Life itself were the sweetheart?
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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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Money is a protection, a cloak it can buy one quiet, and some sort of dignity.
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Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness.
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There seemed to be nothing to see no fences, no creeks or trees, no hills or fields. If there was a road, I could not make it out in the faint starlight. There was nothing but land: not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.
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Ah! the terror and the delight of that moment when first we fear ourselves! Until then we have not lived.
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Too much information is rather deadening.
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The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin.
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The emptiness was intense, like the stillness in a great factory when the machinery stops running.
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When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord.
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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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The only thing very noticeable about Nebraska was that it was still, all day long, Nebraska.
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I had killed a big snake. I was now a big fellow.
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I wondered if the life that was right for one was ever right for two!
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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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There was nothing but land not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.
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The prayers of all good people are good.
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