You can serve or you can sing, and wreck your heart in prayer, working the world’s hard work.
ANNIE DILLARDWrite about winter in the summer.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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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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He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. He is careful of what he learns, for that is what he will know.
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Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.
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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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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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These are our few live seasons. Let us live them as purely as we can, in the present.
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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 search, you break your heart, your back, your brain, and then-and only then-it is handed to you.
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The world knew you before you knew the world.
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She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
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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 live in all we seek.
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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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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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The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.
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