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When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them.
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"When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless"

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Willa Cather, Small This quote is written / told by Willa Cather between December 7, 1873 and April 24, 1947. She was a famous Author from USA. The author also have 31 other quotes.

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