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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.

Annie Dillard

The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful
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Beautiful Nature Proper Question Real
These are our few live seasons. Let us live them as purely as we can, in the present.
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Deason Inspirational Present Pure
Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.
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Love Man She Woman
No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
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Escape Land Promise Wild
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.
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Darkness Demand Finding Inspirational Necessary Outside Requirement Stars
We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place.
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Feeling Place Planet Travel
The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out.
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Pronounce Quite Sea Whisper
Write about winter in the summer.
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Summer Winter Writing
You can’t test courage cautiously.
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Caution Courage One Liner Test
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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Book Happiness Literature Nature Night Reading Words
It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.
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Breathe Glance Power See Time
The world knew you before you knew the world.
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Judgment World
We live in all we seek.
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Live One Liner Seek
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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Grasp Necessary Obedient Passion Thinking
The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.
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Alone Love Secret Writing
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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Giving Lose Play Time Writing

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 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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