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From Quotes by Willa Cather
- 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…
- 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…
- Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness.
- The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.
- 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…
- Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin.
- He had seen the end of an era,the sunset of the pioneer. He had come upon it when already its glory was nearly spent. So…
- The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. Whenit flung wide its cloak and stepped…
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