We live in all we seek.
ANNIE DILLARDExperiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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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 would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
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You can’t test courage cautiously.
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The world knew you before you knew the world.
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Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.
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Make connections; let rip; and dance where you can.
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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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No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
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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.
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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 dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
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He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. He is careful of what he learns, for that is what he will know.
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I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
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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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What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color.
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