The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful
ANNIE DILLARDThe 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.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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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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At a certain point, you say to the woods, to the sea, to the mountains, the world, Now I am ready. Now I will stop and be wholly attentive. You empty yourself and wait, listening.
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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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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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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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The world knew you before you knew the world.
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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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Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.
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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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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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The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out.
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The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.
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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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She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
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We live in all we seek.
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