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Willa Cather1873–1947

I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of something entire, whether it is sun and air, or goodness and knowledge.

Willa Cather on happiness

My Ántonia (1918), My Antonia (1918), Book I, Ch. 2

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Happiness Life & Death

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