Make connections; let rip; and dance where you can.
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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Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.
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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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We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place.
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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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The world knew you before you knew the world.
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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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These are our few live seasons. Let us live them as purely as we can, in the present.
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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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No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
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The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.
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Nature is, above all, profligate.
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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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Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
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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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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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