These are our few live seasons. Let us live them as purely as we can, in the present.
ANNIE DILLARDAdverbs are a sign that you’ve used the wrong verb.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
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The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful
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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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The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.
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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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Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them.
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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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No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
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I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
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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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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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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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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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I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you.
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Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.
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