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Art and religion (they are the same thing, in the end, of course) have given man the only happiness he has ever had.
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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Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin a bloody man, vicious a coarse man, vulgar.
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Hunger is a powerful incentive to introspection.
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A pioneer should have imagination, should be able to enjoy the idea of things more than the things themselves.
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Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness.
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I ain't got time to learn. I can work like mans now.
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We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it - for a little while.
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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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How terrible it was to love people when you could not really share their lives!
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The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.
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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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For ever and anon the soul becomes weary of the conventions that are not of it, and with a single stroke shatters the civilized lies with which it is unable to cope, and the strong arm reaches out and takes by force what it cannot win by cunning.
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The air was cool enough to make the warm sun pleasant on one's back and shoulders, and so clear that the eye could follow a hawk up and up, into the blazing blue depths of the sky.
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The heart, when it is too much alive, aches for that brown earth, and ecstasy has no fear of death.
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The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.
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The air and the earth interpenetrated in the warm gusts of spring the soil was full of sunlight, and the sunlight full of red dust. The air one breathed was saturated with earthy smells, and the grass under foot had a reflection of the blue sky in it.
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Freedom so often means that one isn't needed anywhere.
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Personal life becomes paler as the imaginative life becomes richer.
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One summer evening in the year 1848, three Cardinals and a missionary were dining together in the gardens of a villa in the Sabine hills, overlooking Rome.
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We all like people who do things, even if we only see their faces on cigar-box lids.
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It is easy to pity when once one's vanity has been tickled.
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