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.
ANNIE DILLARDNo one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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Adverbs are a sign that you’ve used the wrong verb.
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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 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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Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.
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Art is like an ill-trained Labrador retriever that drags you out into traffic.
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I break up through the skin of awareness a thousand times a day, as dolphins burst through seas, and dive again, and rise, and dive.
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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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Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.
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The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
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The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful
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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 world knew you before you knew the world.
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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 universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.
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No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
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