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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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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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What if - what if Life itself were the sweetheart?
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Alexandra sighed. I have a feeling that if you go away, you will not come back. Something will happen to one of us, or to both. People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find. What I have is yours if you care enough about me to take it.
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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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Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.
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The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.
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The prayers of all good people are good.
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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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Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.
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The land belongs to the future.
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No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.
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life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
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If there were no girls like them in the world, there would be no poetry
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Miracles surround us at every turn if we but sharpen our perceptions of them.
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The summer moon hung full in the sky. For the time being it was the great fact of the world.
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I suppose there were moonless nights and dark ones with but a silver shaving and pale stars in the sky, but I remember them all as flooded with the rich indolence of a full moon.
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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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I wondered if the life that was right for one was ever right for two!
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It is a tragic hour, that hour when we are finally driven to reckon with ourselves, when every avenue of mental distraction has been cut off and our own life and all its ineffaceable failures closes about us like the walls of that old torture chamber of the Inquisition.
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Only the stupid and the phlegmatic should teach.
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Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world but here the earth was the floor of the sky.
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