The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.
ANNIE DILLARDIt 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.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.
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She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
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Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
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The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.
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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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I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
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The world knew you before you knew the world.
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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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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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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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The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful
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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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Art is like an ill-trained Labrador retriever that drags you out into traffic.
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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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The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less.
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