That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete … - Willa Cather

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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.

Willa Cather

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Willa Sibert Cather (7 December 1873 – 24 April 1947) is among the most eminent American authors, known for her depictions of US life in her novels.

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Alternative Names: Willa Sibert Cather • Wilella Sibert “Willa” Cather • Wilella Sibert Cather

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That is happiness, to be dissolved into something complete and great.

At any rate, that is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald E. M. Forster Karen Blixen Henry James Louise Erdrich

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But she's the kind that won't be downed easily. She'll work all day and go to a Bohemian wedding and dance all night, and drive the hay wagon for a cross man next morning.

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family — but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

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.

That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep. - Willa Cather

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