Nature is, above all, profligate.
ANNIE DILLARD
I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as a dying friend. I hold its hand and hope it will get better.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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Nature is, above all, profligate.
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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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The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.
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What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color.
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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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I cannot cause light; the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam. It is possible, in deep space, to sail on solar wind. Light, be it particle or wave, has force: you rig a giant sail and go. The secret of seeing is to sail on solar wind.
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The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
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He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. He is careful of what he learns, for that is what he will know.
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Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.
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The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.
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The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out.
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The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less.
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