We live in all we seek.
ANNIE DILLARDNature’s silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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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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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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People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.
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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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I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you.
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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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Art is like an ill-trained Labrador retriever that drags you out into traffic.
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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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Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.
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The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
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I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
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We have not yet encountered any god who is as merciful as a man who flicks a beetle over on its feet.
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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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The world knew you before you knew the world.
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