She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
ANNIE DILLARDThe dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know it or care, as a closed book on a shelf continues to whisper to itself its own inexhaustible tale.
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The world knew you before you knew the world.
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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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These are our few live seasons. Let us live them as purely as we can, in the present.
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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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Caring passionately about something isn’t against nature, and it isn’t against human nature. It’s what we’re here to do.
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The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.
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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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You can’t test courage cautiously.
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Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.
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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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Nature is, above all, profligate.
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I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
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The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.
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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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