Make connections; let rip; and dance where you can.
ANNIE DILLARDNo one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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These are our few live seasons. Let us live them as purely as we can, in the present.
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We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place.
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I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
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At a certain point, you say to the woods, to the sea, to the mountains, the world, Now I am ready. Now I will stop and be wholly attentive. You empty yourself and wait, listening.
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Nature is, above all, profligate.
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There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.
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You search, you break your heart, your back, your brain, and then-and only then-it is handed to you.
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The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.
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It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.
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Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
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I break up through the skin of awareness a thousand times a day, as dolphins burst through seas, and dive again, and rise, and dive.
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I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
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Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.
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The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.
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Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them.
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