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 DILLARDIt 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.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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Adverbs are a sign that you’ve used the wrong verb.
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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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Make connections; let rip; and dance where you can.
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Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.
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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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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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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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The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.
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We live in all we seek.
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We have not yet encountered any god who is as merciful as a man who flicks a beetle over on its feet.
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The world knew you before you knew the world.
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The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
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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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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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There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.
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