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I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.

Annie Dillard

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Annie Dillard
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 30
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Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
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Whenever there is stillness there is the still small voice, God's speaking from the whirlwind, nature's old song, and dance.
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The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.
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Don't save something good for a later place. Don't hold back from your students, from the poor, don't try to keep anything for yourself 'cause it'll turn to ashes.
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The irrational haunts the metaphysical.
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Push it. examine all things intensely and relentlessly.
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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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A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order - willed, faked, and so brought into being.
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If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.
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[Insects] are not only cold-blooded, and green- and yellow-blooded, but are also cased in a clacking horn. They have rigid eyes and brains strung down their backs. But they make up the bulk of our comrades-at-life, so I look to them for a glimmer of companionship.
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We wake, if ever at all, to mystery.
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Admire the world for never ending on you -- as you would an opponent, without taking your eyes away from him, or walking away.
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I think the dying pray at the last not please, but thank you, as a guest thanks his host at the door.
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