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Annie Dillard

The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.
ANNIE DILLARD

Creation Gesture Stuff
No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
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Escape Land Promise Wild
The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.
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Comprehensive Earn Universe
You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
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Build Inspirational Jump Time Wings
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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Absurd Business Compromise Fact Finding Hands Ideas Work
Write about winter in the summer.
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Summer Winter Writing
These are our few live seasons. Let us live them as purely as we can, in the present.
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Deason Inspirational Present Pure
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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Beam Cause Inspirational Light Myself Path Practice See Try Wave
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.
ANNIE DILLARD

Grasp Necessary Obedient Passion Thinking
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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Greed Life Requirement Sensation Spirit
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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Care Human Nature Nature Passionate
We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place.
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Feeling Place Planet Travel
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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Encounter Feet Flick God Mercy
There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.
ANNIE DILLARD

Hard Time Life Live Shortage
We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all.
ANNIE DILLARD

Control Fancy Sleep Switch
Make connections; let rip; and dance where you can.
ANNIE DILLARD

Connection Dance Enjoyment Life

What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color.

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