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Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
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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Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed?
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The silence is all there is. It is the alpha and the omega, it is God's brooding over the face of the waters it is the blinded note of the ten thousand things, the whine of wings. You take a step in the right direction to pray to this silence, and even to address the prayer to World. Distinctions blur. Quit your tents. Pray without ceasing.
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But enough is enough. One turns at last even from glory itself with a sigh of relief. From the depths of mystery, and even from the heights of splendor, we bounce back and hurry for the latitudes of home.
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Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you.
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The dear, stupid body is as easily satisfied as a spaniel.
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Every spring he vowed to quit teaching school, and every summer he missed his pupils and searched for them on the streets.
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Nothing on earth is more gladdening than knowing we must roll up our sleeves and move back the boundaries of the humanly possible once more.
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Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.
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It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.
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All my books started out as extravagant and ended up pure and plain.
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Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.
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A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.
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We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all.
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The creative process obtains in all creative acts. So if I'm painting suddenly I'll see something that I didn't see before.
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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.
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A schedule defends from chaos and whim. A net for catching days.
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You do what you do out of your private love of the thing itself.
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