Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
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 secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.
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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 universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.
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We have not yet encountered any god who is as merciful as a man who flicks a beetle over on its feet.
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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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Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.
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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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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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I break up through the skin of awareness a thousand times a day, as dolphins burst through seas, and dive again, and rise, and dive.
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I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
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We live in all we seek.
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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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Make connections; let rip; and dance where you can.
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Nature is, above all, profligate.
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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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