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Only a Woman, divine, could know all that a woman can suffer.

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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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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin.
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There is often a good deal of the child left in people who have had to grow up too soon.
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Love itself draws on a woman nearly all the bad luck in the world
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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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If youth did not matter so much to itself, it would never have the heart to go on.
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The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
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