I break up through the skin of awareness a thousand times a day, as dolphins burst through seas, and dive again, and rise, and dive.
ANNIE DILLARDI had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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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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We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place.
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The world knew you before you knew the world.
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She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
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No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
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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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The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.
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Make connections; let rip; and dance where you can.
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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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You do not have to sit outside in the dark. If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is necessary. But the stars neither require nor demand it.
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I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.
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We live in all we seek.
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Wherever we go, there seems to be only one business at hand – that of finding a workable compromise between the sublimity of our ideas and the absurdity of the fact of us.
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Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.
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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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