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I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.

Annie Dillard

It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know it or care, as a closed book on a shelf continues to whisper to itself its own inexhaustible tale.
ANNIE DILLARD

Book Happiness Literature Nature Night Reading Words
It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.
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Breathe Glance Power See Time
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
Wherever we go, there seems to be only one business at hand – that of finding a workable compromise between the sublimity of our ideas and the absurdity of the fact of us.
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Absurd Business Compromise Fact Finding Hands Ideas Work
I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.
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Bell Experience Inspirational Life Lift Moments Struck
The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
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Dedicate Giving Heart Life Live Worth
I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as a dying friend. I hold its hand and hope it will get better.
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Die Friendship Hope Writing
You search, you break your heart, your back, your brain, and then-and only then-it is handed to you.
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Break Broken Heart Heart Search
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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Beam Cause Inspirational Light Myself Path Practice See Try Wave
She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
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Air Book Breathe Live Reading
Nature is, above all, profligate.
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Nature One Liner
The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful
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Beautiful Nature Proper Question Real
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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Awareness Break Up Dive Rise Sea Skin Time
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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Inspirational Live Spend Time
I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
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Inspirational Learning Live Remember
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

I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.

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