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When people ask me if it has been a hard or easy road, I always answer with the same quotation, the end is nothing, the road is all.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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life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
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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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People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again—but it finds a tougher surface.
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Winter lies too long in country towns hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
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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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In this world people have to pay an extortionate price for any exceptional gift whatever.
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That is happiness to be dissolved into something complete and great.
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The two friends stood for a few moments on the windy street corner, not speaking a word, as two travelers, who have lost their way, sometimes stand and admit their perplexity in silence. (O Pioneers!)
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The prayers of all good people are good.
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Old men are like that, you know. It makes them feel important to think they are in love with somebody.
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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.
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No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. Two people, when they love each other, grow alike in their tastes and habits and pride, but their moral natures (whatever we may mean by that canting expression) are never welded. The base one goes on being base, and the noble one noble, to the end.
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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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Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there — that, one might say, is created.
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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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One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's end somewhere, and hold fast to the days.
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When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason had left them.
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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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Beautiful women, whose beauty meant more than it said... was their brilliancy always fed by something coarse and concealed? Was that their secret?
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Even the wicked get worse than they deserve.
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