QUOTES by Willa Cather
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When people ask me if it has been a hard or easy road, I always answer with the same quotation, the end is nothing, the road is all.Willa Cather
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People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find.
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Language was like clothes; it could be a help to one, or it could give one away. But the most important thing was that one should not pretend to be what one was not.
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Pittsburgh was even more vital, more creative, more hungry for culture than New York. Pittsburgh was the birthplace of my writing.
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Trees were so rare in that country, and they had to make such a hard fight to grow, that we used to feel anxious about them, and visit them as if they were persons.
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There was a new kind of strength in the gravity of her face, and her colors still gave her that look of deep-seated health and ardor.
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And that's what makes men happy, believing in the mystery and importance of their own individual lives.
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I do not see you as you really are, Joseph; I see you through my affection for you.
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The more observing ones may have seen, but discerning people are usually discreet and often kind, for we usually bleed a little before we begin to discern.
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There is often a good deal of the child left in people who have had to grow up too soon.
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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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One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's end somewhere, and hold fast to the days...
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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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Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.
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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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The idea of you is a part of my mind; you influence my likes and dislikes, all my tastes, hundereds of times when I dont realize it. You really are a part of me.
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There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.
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She had certain thoughts which were like companions, ideas which were like older and wiser friends.
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Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
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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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The soul cannot be humbled by fasts and prayer; it must be broken by mortal sin to experience forgiveness of sin and rise to a state of grace. Otherwise, religion is nothing but dead logic.
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What was any art but a mold to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself- life hurrying past us and running away, to strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
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The old man smiled. 'I shall not die of a cold, my son. I shall die of having lived.
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Some memories are realities and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
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Now I understood that the same road was to bring us together again. Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.
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The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.
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That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.
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People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again—but it finds a tougher surface.
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It's all very well to tell us to forgive our enemies; our enemies can never hurt us very much. But oh, what about forgiving our friends?
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