# Quote — Willa Cather, The Professor's House

> The great fact in life, the always possible escape from dullness, was the lake. The sun rose out of it, the day began there; it was like an open door that nobody could shut. The land and all its dreariness could never close in on you. You had only to look at the lake, and you knew you would soon be free.

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

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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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