We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place.
ANNIE DILLARDThere is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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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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Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
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I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
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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 universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.
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The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
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We live in all we seek.
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It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.
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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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Write about winter in the summer.
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At a certain point, you say to the woods, to the sea, to the mountains, the world, Now I am ready. Now I will stop and be wholly attentive. You empty yourself and wait, listening.
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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 extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.
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Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.
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There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.
ANNIE DILLARD