Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
ANNIE DILLARDOur life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
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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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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I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
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The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.
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People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.
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Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.
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We have not yet encountered any god who is as merciful as a man who flicks a beetle over on its feet.
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Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.
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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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What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color.
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The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
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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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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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Mountains are giant, restful, absorbent. You can heave your spirit into a mountain and the mountain will keep it, folded, and not throw it back as some creeks will. The creeks are the world with all its stimulus and beauty; I live there. But the mountains are home.
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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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