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I'd seen a great many partial eclipses, but a partial eclipse has the same relation to a total eclipse as flirting with a man does to marrying him. It's completely different.

Annie Dillard

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Annie Dillard
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 30
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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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I saw in a blue haze all the world poured flat and pale between the mountains
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The life of sensation is the life of greed it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less.
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The irrational haunts the metaphysical.
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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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if you stay still, earth buries you, ready or not.
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Unfortunately, nature is very much a now-you-see-it, now-you-don't affair. A fish flashes, then dissolves in the water before my eyes like so much salt. Deer apparently ascend bodily into heaven the brightest oriole fades into leaves.
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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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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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When I first read the words 'introvert' and 'extrovert' when I was 10, I thought I was both.
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It should surprise no one that the life of the writer - such as it is - is colorless to the point of sensory deprivation. Many writers do little else but sit in small rooms recalling the real world.
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Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you.
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Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.
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