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An artist's saddest secrets are those that have to do with his artistry.

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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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Art is a concrete and personal and rather childish thing after all - no matter what people do to graft it into science and make it sociological and psychological it is no good at all unless it is let alone to be itself - a game of make-believe, or re-production, very exciting and delightful to people who have an ear for it or an eye for it.
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Merely having seen the season change in a country gave one the sense of having been there for a long time.
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One may have staunch friends in one's own family, but one seldom has admirers.
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I wondered if the life that was right for one was ever right for two!
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The trouble is you almost have to marry a man before you can find out the sort of wife he needs and usually it's exactly the sort you are not.
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Your vivid, exciting companionship in the office must not be your audience, you must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world.
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Pity is sworn servant unto love: And this be sure, wherever it begin To make the way, it lets your master in.
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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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The pale, cold light of the winter sunset did not beautify - it was like the light of truth itself.
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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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Oh, the Germans classify, but the French arrange.
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That is happiness to be dissolved into something complete and great.
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What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
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Claude Wheeler opened his eyes before the sun was up and vigorously shook his younger brother, who lay in the other half of the same bed.
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In great misfortunes, people want to be alone. They have a right to be. And the misfortunes that occur within one are the greatest. Surely the saddest thing in the world is falling out of love--if once one has ever fallen in.
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Some things are best learned in calm, others in storm.
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Today I stood taller from walking among the trees.
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It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.
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Success is less interesting than struggle. There is great pleasure in the effort.
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How terrible it was to love people when you could not really share their lives!
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