The world knew you before you knew the world.
ANNIE DILLARDI would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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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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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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These are our few live seasons. Let us live them as purely as we can, in the present.
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Write about winter in the summer.
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Make connections; let rip; and dance where you can.
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You can’t test courage cautiously.
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You do not have to sit outside in the dark. If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is necessary. But the stars neither require nor demand it.
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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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One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time…give it, give it all, give it now.
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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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Nature is, above all, profligate.
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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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The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.
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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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I break up through the skin of awareness a thousand times a day, as dolphins burst through seas, and dive again, and rise, and dive.
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