What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color.
ANNIE DILLARDThe dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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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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The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.
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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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The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
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Adverbs are a sign that you’ve used the wrong verb.
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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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Art is like an ill-trained Labrador retriever that drags you out into traffic.
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The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful
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The world knew you before you knew the world.
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Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.
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I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.
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She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
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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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Nature is, above all, profligate.
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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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