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What if - what if Life itself were the sweetheart?

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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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If we never arrived anywhere, it did not matter. Between that earth and that sky i felt erased, blotted out. I did not say my prayers that night: here, i felt what would be would be.
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin.
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Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke.
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I ain't got time to learn. I can work like mans now.
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Miracles surround us at every turn if we but sharpen our perceptions of them.
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