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The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful?

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Annie Dillard
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 30
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Pittsburg
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The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.
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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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There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.
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