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No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.
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The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.
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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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The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own.
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Money is a protection, a cloak; it can buy one quiet, and some sort of dignity.
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When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason had left them.
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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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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.
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There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
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Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
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Born in Gore, Virginia, on December 7, 1873, Cather moved with her family to Nebraska as a child. This experience profoundly shaped her writing, which often portrays the harsh realities and aspirations of settlers in the American Midwest. She attended the University of Nebraska and, after graduating, moved to Pittsburgh, where she worked as an editor and drama critic. Her literary career flourished in New York, where she became a prominent figure in the literary scene. Cather gained critical acclaim for novels such as 'O Profeta da Morte' (1913), 'Minha Ânia' (1915), and 'Um Canto de Mildred' (1922). Her prose is celebrated for its clarity, lyrical beauty, and deep understanding of human psychology. She received the Gold Medal of the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1930 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1923. Willa Cather passed away on April 24, 1947.