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No, the point is not only does time fly and do we die, but that in these reckless conditions we live at all, and are vouchsafed, for the duration of certain inexplicable moments, to know it.
Annie Dillard
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Annie Dillard
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 30
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I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again.
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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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