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The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.

Annie Dillard

The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.
ANNIE DILLARD

Answer Beauty Grace Performance Sense Thinking Try
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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Beam Cause Inspirational Light Myself Path Practice See Try Wave
He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. He is careful of what he learns, for that is what he will know.
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Care Learning Reading Writing
Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
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Faint Life Mystery Surface
One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time…give it, give it all, give it now.
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Giving Lose Play Time Writing
We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place.
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Feeling Place Planet Travel
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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Event Gossip Hard Heart Learning Love Time
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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Care Human Nature Nature Passionate
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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Catch Cup Empty Experience Grace Hollow Present Waterfall
These are our few live seasons. Let us live them as purely as we can, in the present.
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Deason Inspirational Present Pure
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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Awareness Break Up Dive Rise Sea Skin Time
No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
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Escape Land Promise Wild
The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful
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Beautiful Nature Proper Question Real
The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
ANNIE DILLARD

Dedicate Giving Heart Life Live Worth
People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.
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Alone Inquire Love People Pretty Subject
You search, you break your heart, your back, your brain, and then-and only then-it is handed to you.
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Break Broken Heart Heart Search

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