The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful
ANNIE DILLARDThese are our few live seasons. Let us live them as purely as we can, in the present.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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The world knew you before you knew the world.
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Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.
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Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
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Wherever we go, there seems to be only one business at hand – that of finding a workable compromise between the sublimity of our ideas and the absurdity of the fact of us.
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Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.
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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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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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The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.
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I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
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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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Nature is, above all, profligate.
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Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them.
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I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
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No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
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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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