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Willa Cather

  • annkaragwahas quotedlast year
    Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of something entire, whether it is sun and air, or goodness and knowledge. At any rate, that is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.
  • annkaragwahas quotedlast year
    He had the gift of simple and moving expression. Because he talked so little, his words had a peculiar force; they were not worn dull from constant use.
  • annkaragwahas quotedlast year
    If we never arrived anywhere, it did not matter. Between that earth and that sky I felt erased, blotted out.
  • annkaragwahas quotedlast year
    Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.
  • b4845171640has quoted2 years ago
    There are men who feel more at their ease when they stand up before another man who threatens their lives with sword or pistol than in the presence of a woman
  • b4845171640has quoted2 years ago
    it would be much better to do it by letter, and not to utter the words that should stab her to the heart
  • b4845171640has quoted2 years ago
    his first day on the battlefield of civilization in Paris
  • b4845171640has quoted2 years ago
    deal with the world as it deserves
  • b4845171640has quoted2 years ago
    The more cold-blooded your calculations, the further you will go
  • b4845171640has quoted2 years ago
    Yet, if you have a heart, lock it carefully away like a treasure; do not let any one suspect it, or you will be lost; you would cease to be the executioner, you would take the victim’s place. And if ever you should love, never let your secret escape you! Trust no one until you are very sure of the heart to which you open your heart. Learn to mistrust every one; take every precaution for the sake of the love which does not exist as yet
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