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I first met Myra Henshawe when I was fifteen, but I had known her about ever since I could remember anything at all.

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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 you love the good thing vitally, enough to give up for it all that one must give up, then you must hate the cheap thing just as hard. I tell you, there is such a thing as creative hate! “A contempt that drives you through fire, makes you risk everything and lose everything, makes you a long sight better than you ever knew you could be.
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In a few hours one could cover that incalculable distance from the winter country and homely neighbours, to the city where the air trembled like a tuning-fork with unimaginable possibilities.
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I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.
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The pale, cold light of the winter sunset did not beautify - it was like the light of truth itself.
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When the eyes of the flesh are shut, the eyes of the spirit are open.
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I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
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The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
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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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No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.
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