Caring passionately about something isn’t against nature, and it isn’t against human nature. It’s what we’re here to do.
ANNIE DILLARDThe world knew you before you knew the world.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
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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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Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.
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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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The world knew you before you knew the world.
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I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
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Write about winter in the summer.
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Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.
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Art is like an ill-trained Labrador retriever that drags you out into traffic.
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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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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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You can serve or you can sing, and wreck your heart in prayer, working the world’s hard work.
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Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.
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We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all.
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We live in all we seek.
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