Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
ANNIE DILLARDNo one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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We live in all we seek.
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I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
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The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.
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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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We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all.
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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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You can’t test courage cautiously.
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You can serve or you can sing, and wreck your heart in prayer, working the world’s hard work.
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It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.
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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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How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days.
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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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The world knew you before you knew the world.
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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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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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