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 DILLARDNature is, above all, profligate.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.
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Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.
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Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them.
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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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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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No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
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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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You can’t test courage cautiously.
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Nature is, above all, profligate.
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The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
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We live in all we seek.
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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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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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We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place.
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