Willa Cather - Love Quotes

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No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. Two people, when they love each other, grow alike in their tastes and habits and pride, but their moral natures (whatever we may mean by that canting expression) are never welded. The base one goes on being base, and the noble one noble, to the end.

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Old men are like that, you know. It makes them feel important to think they are in love with somebody.

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Where there is great love there are always miracles.

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Sometimes," I ventured, "it doesn't occur to boys that their mother was ever young and pretty... I couldn't stand it if you boys were inconsiderate, or thought of her as if she were just somebody who looked after you. You see I was very much in love with your mother once, and I know there's nobody like her...

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People can be lovers and enemies at the same time, you know. We were... A man and woman draw apart from that long embrace, and see what they have done to each other... In age we lose everything; even the power to love.

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So blind is life, so long at last is sleep,
And none but love to bid us laugh or weep.

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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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In little towns, lives roll along so close to one another; loves and hates beat about, their wings almost touching.

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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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Youth, art, love, dreams, true-heartedness — why must they go out of the summer world into darkness?

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Love itself draws on a woman nearly all the bad luck in the world

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If you love the good thing vitally, enough to give up for it all that one must give up, then you must hate the cheap thing just as hard. I tell you, there is such a thing as creative hate! A contempt that drives you through fire, makes you risk everything and lose everything, makes you a long sight better than you ever knew you could be.

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"In great misfortunes," he told himself, "people want to be alone. They have a right to be. And the misfortunes that occur within one are the greatest. Surely the saddest thing in the world is falling out of love — if once one has ever fallen in."
Falling out, for him, seemed to mean falling out of all domestic and social relations, out of his place in the human family, indeed.

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How terrible it was to love people when you could not really share their lives!

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