I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
ANNIE DILLARDWe live in all we seek.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
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At a certain point, you say to the woods, to the sea, to the mountains, the world, Now I am ready. Now I will stop and be wholly attentive. You empty yourself and wait, listening.
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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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The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.
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No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
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Adverbs are a sign that you’ve used the wrong verb.
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We live in all we seek.
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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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The world knew you before you knew the world.
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The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful
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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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You can serve or you can sing, and wreck your heart in prayer, working the world’s hard work.
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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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Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.
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She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
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