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Oh, that's the beauty of the rose, that it blossoms and dies.

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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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Miracles surround us at every turn if we but sharpen our perceptions of them.
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There seemed to be nothing to see no fences, no creeks or trees, no hills or fields. If there was a road, I could not make it out in the faint starlight. There was nothing but land: not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.
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Of course Nebraska is a storehouse of literary material. Everywhere is a storehouse of literary material. If a true artist were born in a pigpen and raised in a sty, he would still find plenty of inspiration for his work. The only need is the eye to see.
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Thirty or forty years ago, in one those grey towns along the Burlington railroad which are so much greyer to-day than they were then, there was a house well know from Omaha to Denver for its hospitality and for a certain charm of atmosphere.
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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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Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.
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Even the wicked get worse than they deserve.
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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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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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[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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Happy people do a great deal for their friends.
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The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
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Life began for me, when I ceased to admire and began to remember.
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I've seen it before. There are women who spread ruin through no fault of theirs, just by being too beautiful, too ful of life and love. They can't help it. Poeple come to them as people go to a warm fire in winter.
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youth, when it is hurt, likes to feel itself betrayed.
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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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There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.
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The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current.
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All Southern women wished of their menfolk was simply to be 'like Paris handsome and like Hector brave'.
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One may have staunch friends in one's own family, but one seldom has admirers.
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