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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I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you.
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We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all.
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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 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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He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. He is careful of what he learns, for that is what he will know.
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You can’t test courage cautiously.
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Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
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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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Make connections; let rip; and dance where you can.
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Wherever we go, there seems to be only one business at hand – that of finding a workable compromise between the sublimity of our ideas and the absurdity of the fact of us.
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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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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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What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color.
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Caring passionately about something isn’t against nature, and it isn’t against human nature. It’s what we’re here to do.
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She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
ANNIE DILLARD