You do not have to sit outside in the dark. If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is necessary. But the stars neither require nor demand it.
ANNIE DILLARDThe universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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Make connections; let rip; and dance where you can.
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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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You can’t test courage cautiously.
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Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.
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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 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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The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.
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Art is like an ill-trained Labrador retriever that drags you out into traffic.
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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 search, you break your heart, your back, your brain, and then-and only then-it is handed to you.
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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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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.
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I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
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Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.
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Nature is, above all, profligate.
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