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We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place.

Annie Dillard

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
We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all.
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Control Fancy Sleep Switch
The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful
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Beautiful Nature Proper Question Real
She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
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Air Book Breathe Live Reading
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.
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Afternoon Spend Travel Vacation
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
I cannot cause light; the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam. It is possible, in deep space, to sail on solar wind. Light, be it particle or wave, has force: you rig a giant sail and go. The secret of seeing is to sail on solar wind.
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Beam Cause Inspirational Light Myself Path Practice See Try Wave
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
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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Alone Inquire Love People Pretty Subject
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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Care Human Nature Nature Passionate
You can serve or you can sing, and wreck your heart in prayer, working the world’s hard work.
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Heart Prayer Serve Sing Work Hard World
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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Greed Life Requirement Sensation Spirit
Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
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Faint Life Mystery Surface
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.
ANNIE DILLARD

Giving Lose Play Time Writing
The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
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Dedicate Giving Heart Life Live Worth
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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