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Youth, art, love, dreams, true-heartedness - why must they go out of the summer world into darkness?

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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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Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches.
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To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent.
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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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When the eyes of the flesh are shut, the eyes of the spirit are open.
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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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