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The Professor's House

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Cather, Willa. The Professor's House. Alfred A. Knopf, 1925, bk. 1, ch. 8.

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The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.

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Cather, Willa. O Pioneers! Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913, pt. 1, ch. 5.

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Cather, Willa. O Pioneers, edited by Sharon O'Brien. W. W. Norton & Company, 2007, pt. 1, ch. 5.

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Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things.

Death Comes for the Archbishop

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Cather, Willa. Death Comes for the Archbishop. Alfred A. Knopf, 1927, bk. 9, ch. 6.

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There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

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Cather, Willa. The Song of the Lark. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915, pt. 4, ch. 8.

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Cather, Willa. The Song of the Lark. Vintage, 1999, pt. 4, ch. 8.

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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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Cather, Willa, My Ántonia. Houghton Mifflin, 1918, bk. 1, ch. 1.

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Cather, Willa. My Ántonia. W. W. Norton & Co., 2015, bk. 1, ch. 1.

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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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Cather, Willa. My Antonia. Houghton Mifflin, 1918, bk. 2, ch. 7.

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Cather, Willa. My Ántonia. W. W. Norton & Co., 2015, bk. 2, ch. 7.

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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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Cather, Willa. My Ántonia. Houghton Mifflin, 1918, bk. 1, ch. 2.

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Cather, Willa. My Ántonia. W. W. Norton & Co., 2015, bk. 1, ch. 2.

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We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it-for a little while.

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Cather, Willa. O Pioneers! Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913, pt. 5, ch. 3.

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Cather, Willa. O Pioneers, edited by Sharon O'Brien. W. W. Norton & Company, 2007, pt. 5, ch. 3.

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I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

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Cather, Willa. O Pioneers! Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913, pt. 2, ch. 8.

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Cather, Willa. O Pioneers, edited by Sharon O'Brien. W. W. Norton & Company, 2007, pt. 2, ch. 8.

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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; like the larks in this country, that have been singing the same five notes over for thousands of years.

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Cather, Willa. O Pioneers! Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913, pt. 2, ch. 4.

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Cather, Willa. O Pioneers, edited by Sharon O'Brien. W. W. Norton & Company, 2007, pt. 2, ch. 4.

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People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again-but it finds a tougher surface.

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Cather, Willa. The Song of the Lark. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915, pt. 2, ch. 11.

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Cather, Willa. The Song of the Lark. Vintage, 1999, pt. 2, ch. 11.

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There's nothing so dangerous as sitting still. You've only got one life, one youth, and you can let it slip through your fingers if you want to; nothing easier. Most people do that.

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Cather, Willa. "The Bohemian Girl." McClure's Magazine, Aug. 1912.

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Cather, Willa. "The Bohemian Girl." The Bohemian Girl: Stories. Harper Perennial, 2009.

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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 holds fast to the days, as to fortune or fame.

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Cather, Willa. Willa Cather in Europe: Her Own Story of the First Journey. Alfred A. Knopf, 1956, ch. 13. Originally a notebook entry in Le Lavandou. 10 Sept. 1902.

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Where there is great love, there are always miracles.

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Cather, Willa. Death Comes for the Archbishop. Alfred A. Knopf, 1927, bk. 1, ch. 4.

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Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.

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Cather, Willa. My Antonia. Houghton Mifflin, 1918, bk. 5, ch. 3.

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Cather, Willa. My Ántonia. W. W. Norton & Co., 2015, bk. 5, ch. 3.

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I tell you, there is such a thing as creative hate!

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Cather, Willa. The Song of the Lark. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915, pt. 6, ch. 9.

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Cather, Willa. The Song of the Lark. Vintage, 1999, pt. 6, ch. 9.

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The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing-desire.

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