Tao Te Ching

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My Ántonia

By Willa Cather

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“As I looked about me I felt that the grass was the country as the water is the sea... the whole country seemed, somehow, to be running.”

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“He squandered too much in the heat of personal communication [and] narrowly missed being a great poet... his bursts of imaginative talk were fatal to his poetic gift.”

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Themes: Less is More

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“I found myself thinking of the places and people of my own infinitesimal past... whenever my consciousness was quickened, all those early friends were quickened within it, and in some strange way they accompany me through all my new experiences.”

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“She lent herself to immemorial human attitudes which we recognize by instinct as universal and true... a look or gesture somehow revealed the meaning in common things.”

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“What was any art but a mold to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself- life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.”

Chapters: 1. The Unnamed

Themes: Art Here and Now

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