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

Annie Dillard

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
Adverbs are a sign that you’ve used the wrong verb.
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Use Writing Wrong
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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According Away Believe Book Light Swept
The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out.
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Pronounce Quite Sea Whisper
The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.
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Creation Gesture Stuff
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
Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.
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Love Man She Woman
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.
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Cool Eyes Flame Look See Spark Tinder Water
I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
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Inspirational Learning Live Remember
You can’t test courage cautiously.
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Caution Courage One Liner Test
We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all.
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Control Fancy Sleep Switch
We have not yet encountered any god who is as merciful as a man who flicks a beetle over on its feet.
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Encounter Feet Flick God Mercy
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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Answer Beauty Grace Performance Sense Thinking Try
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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Block Flake Mute Nature Silence World
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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Catch Cup Empty Experience Grace Hollow Present Waterfall
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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Grasp Necessary Obedient Passion Thinking

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