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.
ANNIE DILLARDIt was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all.
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The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.
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The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.
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How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days.
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Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.
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The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
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She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
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Nature is, above all, profligate.
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I come down to the water to cool my eyes. But everywhere I look I see fire; that which isn’t flint is tinder, and the whole world sparks and flames.
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You can serve or you can sing, and wreck your heart in prayer, working the world’s hard work.
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Make connections; let rip; and dance where you can.
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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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Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.
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The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less.
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No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
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