You can’t test courage cautiously.
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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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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What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color.
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We live in all we seek.
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I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.
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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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You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
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I come down to the water to cool my eyes. But everywhere I look I see fire; that which isn’t flint is tinder, and the whole world sparks and flames.
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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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These are our few live seasons. Let us live them as purely as we can, in the present.
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The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.
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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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There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.
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Art is like an ill-trained Labrador retriever that drags you out into traffic.
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The world knew you before you knew the world.
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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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