No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
ANNIE DILLARDYou 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.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.
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Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.
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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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The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out.
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Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them.
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We live in all we seek.
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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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She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and 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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The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful
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We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place.
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These are our few live seasons. Let us live them as purely as we can, in the present.
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Write about winter in the summer.
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Art is like an ill-trained Labrador retriever that drags you out into traffic.
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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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