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.
ANNIE DILLARDWhat a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color.
More Annie Dillard Quotes
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Make connections; let rip; and dance where you can.
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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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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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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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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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The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.
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The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful
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Nature is, above all, profligate.
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There are no events but thoughts and the heart’s hard turning, the heart’s slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely gossip, and tales for other times.
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You can’t test courage cautiously.
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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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Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.
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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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