The world knew you before you knew the world.
ANNIE DILLARDWe live in all we seek.
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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We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place.
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The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.
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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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I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
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Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.
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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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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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Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
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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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Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.
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Write about winter in the summer.
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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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We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all.
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