It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.
ANNIE DILLARDI break up through the skin of awareness a thousand times a day, as dolphins burst through seas, and dive again, and rise, and dive.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.
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Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.
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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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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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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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These are our few live seasons. Let us live them as purely as we can, in the present.
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You can’t test courage cautiously.
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Write about winter in the summer.
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Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
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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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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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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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There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.
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You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
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