I come down to the water to cool my eyes. But everywhere I look I see fire; that which isn’t flint is tinder, and the whole world sparks and flames.
ANNIE DILLARDOur life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
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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These are our few live seasons. Let us live them as purely as we can, in the present.
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She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
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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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The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
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You can’t test courage cautiously.
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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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Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.
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The world knew you before you knew the world.
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Write about winter in the summer.
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We live in all we seek.
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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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He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. He is careful of what he learns, for that is what he will know.
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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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Adverbs are a sign that you’ve used the wrong verb.
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