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The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful

Annie Dillard

Nature’s silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block.
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Block Flake Mute Nature Silence World
Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.
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Emergency Extend Kind Live Survival
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.
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Afternoon Spend Travel Vacation
You can’t test courage cautiously.
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Caution Courage One Liner Test
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
No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
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Escape Land Promise Wild
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
Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
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Faint Life Mystery Surface
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
The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out.
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Pronounce Quite Sea Whisper
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
Art is like an ill-trained Labrador retriever that drags you out into traffic.
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Art Traffic Traning
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
Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.
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Love Man She Woman
She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
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Air Book Breathe Live Reading
There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.
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Hard Time Life Live Shortage

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