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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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I was thinking, as I watched her, how little it mattered –about her teeth for instance. I know so many women who have kept all the things she had lost, *but whose inner glow has faded*. Whatever else was gone, Antonia had not lost the fire of life.
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Hunger is a powerful incentive to introspection.
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The great fact in life, the always possible escape from dullness, was the lake. The sun rose out of it, the day began there it was like an open door that nobody could shut. The land and all its dreariness could never close in on you. You had only to look at the lake, and you knew you would soon be free.
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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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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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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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Let people go on talking as they like, and we will go on living as we think best.
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When the eyes of the flesh are shut, the eyes of the spirit are open.
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There was nothing but land not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.
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If youth did not matter so much to itself, it would never have the heart to go on.
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