Make connections; let rip; and dance where you can.
ANNIE DILLARDNature is, above all, profligate.
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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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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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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Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
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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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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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The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
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The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.
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The world knew you before you knew the world.
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Mountains are giant, restful, absorbent. You can heave your spirit into a mountain and the mountain will keep it, folded, and not throw it back as some creeks will. The creeks are the world with all its stimulus and beauty; I live there. But the mountains are home.
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I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as a dying friend. I hold its hand and hope it will get better.
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Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.
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We live in all we seek.
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The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.
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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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