We live in all we seek.
ANNIE DILLARDThe world knew you before you knew the world.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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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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The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
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Caring passionately about something isn’t against nature, and it isn’t against human nature. It’s what we’re here to do.
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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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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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The world knew you before you knew the world.
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You can’t test courage cautiously.
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The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out.
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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 real and proper question is: why is it beautiful
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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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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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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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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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