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.
ANNIE DILLARDShe read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
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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Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
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She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
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We live in all we seek.
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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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Make connections; let rip; and dance where you can.
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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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You can’t test courage cautiously.
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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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You search, you break your heart, your back, your brain, and then-and only then-it is handed to you.
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Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.
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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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The world knew you before you knew the world.
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No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
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The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
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