You do not have to sit outside in the dark. If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is necessary. But the stars neither require nor demand it.
ANNIE DILLARDThe dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.
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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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Make connections; let rip; and dance where you can.
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I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as a dying friend. I hold its hand and hope it will get better.
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We live in all we seek.
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Write about winter in the summer.
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Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.
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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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The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
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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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What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color.
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Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
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The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful
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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 would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
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