# Quote — Willa Cather, The Professor's House

> Art and religion (they are the same thing, in the end, of course) have given man the only happiness he has ever had.

- Author: [Willa Cather](https://www.leafyquotes.com/willa-cather.md)
- Book: [The Professor's House](https://www.leafyquotes.com/willa-cather/the-professors-house.md)
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> To people off alone, as we were, there is something stirring about finding evidences of human labour and care in the soil of an empty country. It comes to you as a sort of message, makes you feel differently about the ground you walk over every day.

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> A work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one.

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> "In great misfortunes," he told himself, "people want to be alone. They have a right to be. And the misfortunes that occur within one are the greatest. Surely the saddest thing in the world is falling out of love — if once one has ever fallen in."
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> Falling out, for him, seemed to mean falling out of all domestic and social relations, out of his place in the human family, indeed.

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