I come down to the water to cool my eyes. But everywhere I look I see fire; that which isn’t flint is tinder, and the whole world sparks and flames.
ANNIE DILLARDWe live in all we seek.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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You can’t test courage cautiously.
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Nature is, above all, profligate.
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Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.
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The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.
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There are no events but thoughts and the heart’s hard turning, the heart’s slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely gossip, and tales for other times.
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I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
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The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.
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I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
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Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.
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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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You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
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You do not have to sit outside in the dark. If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is necessary. But the stars neither require nor demand it.
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Nature’s silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block.
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People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.
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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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