I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.
ANNIE DILLARDThe real and proper question is: why is it beautiful
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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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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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We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place.
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You can’t test courage cautiously.
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Make connections; let rip; and dance where you can.
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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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The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful
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She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
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It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.
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The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.
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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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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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You can serve or you can sing, and wreck your heart in prayer, working the world’s hard work.
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I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
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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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