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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.

Annie Dillard

The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful
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Beautiful Nature Proper Question Real
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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Greed Life Requirement Sensation Spirit
We live in all we seek.
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Live One Liner Seek
Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.
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Love Man She Woman
Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
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Faint Life Mystery Surface
Write about winter in the summer.
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Summer Winter Writing
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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Cool Eyes Flame Look See Spark Tinder Water
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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Grasp Necessary Obedient Passion Thinking
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.
ANNIE DILLARD

Ansore Beauty Giant Home Mountain Spirit Throw Trekking
You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
ANNIE DILLARD

Build Inspirational Jump Time Wings
Adverbs are a sign that you’ve used the wrong verb.
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Use Writing Wrong
I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
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Inspirational Learning Live Remember
The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.
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Alone Love Secret Writing
I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
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Hope Inspirational Positive Wake Up
We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place.
ANNIE DILLARD

Feeling Place Planet Travel
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.
ANNIE DILLARD

Die Friendship Hope Writing

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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