We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all.
ANNIE DILLARDThe world knew you before you knew the world.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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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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I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
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I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
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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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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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Adverbs are a sign that you’ve used the wrong verb.
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There are no events but thoughts and the heart’s hard turning, the heart’s slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely gossip, and tales for other times.
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The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
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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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It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know it or care, as a closed book on a shelf continues to whisper to itself its own inexhaustible tale.
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Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.
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You can’t test courage cautiously.
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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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Write about winter in the summer.
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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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