We live in all we seek.
ANNIE DILLARDYou can’t test courage cautiously.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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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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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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The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.
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Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
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How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days.
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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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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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The world knew you before you knew the world.
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I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
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The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.
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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 dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
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You can’t test courage cautiously.
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We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all.
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Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.
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