Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
From Willa Cather
Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.
Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.
There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.
That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
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