Willa Cather - One of Ours (1922)

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The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

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The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.

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Youth, when it is hurt, likes to feel itself betrayed.

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Life was so short that it meant nothing at all unless it were continually reinforced by something that endured; unless the shadows of individual existence came and went against a background that held together.

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Merely having seen the season change in a country gave one the sense of having been there for a long time.

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The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current.

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