No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
ANNIE DILLARDThe 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.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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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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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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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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Nature’s silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block.
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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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The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.
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Nature is, above all, profligate.
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We live in all we seek.
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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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We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place.
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Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
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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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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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I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
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