We live in all we seek.
ANNIE DILLARDThe universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.
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Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
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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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Art is like an ill-trained Labrador retriever that drags you out into traffic.
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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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You can serve or you can sing, and wreck your heart in prayer, working the world’s hard work.
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The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful
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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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I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
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Caring passionately about something isn’t against nature, and it isn’t against human nature. It’s what we’re here to do.
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No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
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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 secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.
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The world knew you before you knew the world.
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Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.
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