The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out.
ANNIE DILLARDI break up through the skin of awareness a thousand times a day, as dolphins burst through seas, and dive again, and rise, and dive.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
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Nature is, above all, profligate.
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The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful
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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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Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
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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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Mountains are giant, restful, absorbent. You can heave your spirit into a mountain and the mountain will keep it, folded, and not throw it back as some creeks will. The creeks are the world with all its stimulus and beauty; I live there. But the mountains are home.
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Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.
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Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.
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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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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’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
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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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Write about winter in the summer.
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Adverbs are a sign that you’ve used the wrong verb.
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