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Willa Cather
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"The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always."
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Willa Cather
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Power
"I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do."
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Willa Cather
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Nature
"All the intelligence and talent in the world can’t make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can’t be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens."
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Willa Cather
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Intelligence
"It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of."
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Willa Cather
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Great
"That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great."
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Willa Cather
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Happiness
"The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is."
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Willa Cather
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Great
"The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter."
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Willa Cather
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Freedom
"Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything."
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Willa Cather
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Family
"I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived."
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Willa Cather
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Death
"There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm."
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Willa Cather
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Best
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