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 DILLARDWe are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place.
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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People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.
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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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We live in all we seek.
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Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.
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I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
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Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.
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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 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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There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.
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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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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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The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
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It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.
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