What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color.
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 sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out.
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We live in all we seek.
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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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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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Mountains are giant, restful, absorbent. You can heave your spirit into a mountain and the mountain will keep it, folded, and not throw it back as some creeks will. The creeks are the world with all its stimulus and beauty; I live there. But the mountains are home.
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Write about winter in the summer.
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Make connections; let rip; and dance where you can.
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No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
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The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful
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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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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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Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.
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We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all.
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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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