These are our few live seasons. Let us live them as purely as we can, in the present.
ANNIE DILLARDSpend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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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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The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out.
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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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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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You can serve or you can sing, and wreck your heart in prayer, working the world’s hard work.
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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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Make connections; let rip; and dance where you can.
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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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We live in all we seek.
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There are no events but thoughts and the heart’s hard turning, the heart’s slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely gossip, and tales for other times.
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Caring passionately about something isn’t against nature, and it isn’t against human nature. It’s what we’re here to do.
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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.
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She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
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We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place.
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