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.
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Willa Cather quotes & passages
3 passages by Willa Cather, from My Ántonia and O Pioneers!. Willa Cather died in 1947, so the words are in the public domain. Every passage is copied word for word from the Project Gutenberg text.
About Willa Cather
American novelist (1873–1947) of the Great Plains. Wrote O Pioneers!, My Ántonia and the Pulitzer Prize-winning One of Ours.
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Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
Isn’t it queer: 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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