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Quotation from My Ántonia by Willa Cather
“Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past”
My Ántonia, Book V, Ch. 3 (1918 first edition)
The novel's closing sentence, as Jim reflects on his bond with Ántonia.
Citation: "Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past" — Willa Cather, My Ántonia, Book V, Ch. 3 (1918 first edition). (id my-antonia-q4)
Portrait: Willa Cather ca. 1912 wearing necklace from Sarah Orne Jewett (cropped), Photographer: Aime Dupont Studio, New York, Public domain.
