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The end is nothing the road is all.

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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
Nothing
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The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.
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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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Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness.
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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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When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.
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Happy people do a great deal for their friends.
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Oh, that's the beauty of the rose, that it blossoms and dies.
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Love itself draws on a woman nearly all the bad luck in the world
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[Mark Twain] is still the rough, awkward, good-natured boy who swore at the deck hands when he was three years old. Thoroughly likeable as a good fellow, but impossible as a man of letters.
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Oh, this is the joy of the rose That it blows, And goes.
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In Haverford on the Platte the townspeople still talk of Lucy Gayheart.
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Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.
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Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
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Art, it seems to me, should simplify.
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