We have not yet encountered any god who is as merciful as a man who flicks a beetle over on its feet.
ANNIE DILLARDYou can’t test courage cautiously.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
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The world knew you before you knew the world.
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We live in all we seek.
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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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You search, you break your heart, your back, your brain, and then-and only then-it is handed to you.
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She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
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You can’t test courage cautiously.
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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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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.
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Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.
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Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.
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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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You can serve or you can sing, and wreck your heart in prayer, working the world’s hard work.
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Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
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Art is like an ill-trained Labrador retriever that drags you out into traffic.
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