"I've seen it before. There are women who……" — Willa Cather
"I've seen it before. There are women who spread ruin through no fault of theirs, just by being too beautiful, too ful of life and love. They can't help it. Poeple come to them as people go to a warm fire in winter."
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Willa Cather
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138 Quotes by Willa Cather
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I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.
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The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.
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Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
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Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile,…
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No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.
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