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The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.

Annie Dillard

There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.
ANNIE DILLARD

Hard Time Life Live Shortage
The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful
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Beautiful Nature Proper Question Real
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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Event Gossip Hard Heart Learning Love Time
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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Empty Listen Mountain Ready Wait Wood Yourself
Write about winter in the summer.
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Summer Winter Writing
Adverbs are a sign that you’ve used the wrong verb.
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Use Writing Wrong
We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place.
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Feeling Place Planet Travel
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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Alone Inquire Love People Pretty Subject
Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.
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Love Man She Woman
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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Care Learning Reading Writing
It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know it or care, as a closed book on a shelf continues to whisper to itself its own inexhaustible tale.
ANNIE DILLARD

Book Happiness Literature Nature Night Reading Words
The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
ANNIE DILLARD

Dedicate Giving Heart Life Live Worth
These are our few live seasons. Let us live them as purely as we can, in the present.
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Deason Inspirational Present Pure
The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.
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Creation Gesture Stuff
The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.
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Comprehensive Earn Universe
Nature is, above all, profligate.
ANNIE DILLARD

Nature One Liner

The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.

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