The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful
ANNIE DILLARDWe are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.
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Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.
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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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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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We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place.
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I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
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Adverbs are a sign that you’ve used the wrong verb.
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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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Write about winter in the summer.
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Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.
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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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The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.
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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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There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.
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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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