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Willa Cather Quotes

Oh, that’s the beauty of the rose, that it blossoms and dies Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The world is always full of brilliant youth which fades into grey and embittered middle age: the first flowering takes everything. The great men are those who have developed slowly, or who have been able to survive the glamour of their early florescence and to go on learning from life Picture Quote #1

Art and religion (they are the same thing, in the end, of course) have given man the only happiness he has ever had Picture Quote #1

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family, but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything Picture Quote #1

When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless Picture Quote #1

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What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose Picture Quote #1

The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own Picture Quote #1

The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor Picture Quote #1

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young Picture Quote #1

Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything Picture Quote #1

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do Picture Quote #1

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Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale; legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches Picture Quote #1

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Oh, that’s the beauty of the rose, that it blossoms and dies (Willa Cather Quotes) 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 (Willa Cather Quotes) The world is always full of brilliant youth which fades into grey and embittered middle age: the first flowering takes everything. The great men are those who have developed slowly, or who have been able to survive the glamour of their early florescence and to go on learning from life (Willa Cather Quotes) Art and religion (they are the same thing, in the end, of course) have given man the only happiness he has ever had (Willa Cather Quotes) Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family, but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything (Willa Cather Quotes) When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless (Willa Cather Quotes) What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose (Willa Cather Quotes) The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own (Willa Cather Quotes) The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor (Willa Cather Quotes) The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young (Willa Cather Quotes) Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything (Willa Cather Quotes) I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do (Willa Cather Quotes) Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale; legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches (Willa Cather Quotes)

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