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How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour and with that one, is what we are doing.

Annie Dillard

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Annie Dillard
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 30
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Your feelings are none of your business.
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Our life seems cursed to be a wiggle merely, and a wandering without end.
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As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
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It is difficult to undo our own damage, and to recall to our presence that which we have asked to leave. It is hard to desecrate a grove and change your mind. The very holy mountains are keeping mum. We doused the burning bush and cannot rekindle it we are lighting matches in vain under every green tree.
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You are wrong if you think that you can in any way take the vision and tame it to the page. The page is jealous and tyrannical the page is made of time and matter the page always wins.
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