We live in all we seek.
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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The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.
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One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time – give it, give it all, give it now.
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One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time…give it, give it all, give it now.
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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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I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.
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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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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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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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We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place.
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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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What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color.
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It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.
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I cannot cause light; the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam. It is possible, in deep space, to sail on solar wind. Light, be it particle or wave, has force: you rig a giant sail and go. The secret of seeing is to sail on solar wind.
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There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.
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