Wherever we go, there seems to be only one business at hand – that of finding a workable compromise between the sublimity of our ideas and the absurdity of the fact of us.
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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Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.
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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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The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less.
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The world knew you before you knew the world.
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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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You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
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The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.
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I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
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Make connections; let rip; and dance where you can.
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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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You can’t test courage cautiously.
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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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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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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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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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