Caring Quote by Annie Dillard

“Caring passionately about something isn't against nature, and it isn't against human nature. It's what we're here to do.”

Annie Dillard

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Like everyone in his right mind, I feared Santa Claus.

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“This is a spendthrift economy; though nothing is lost, all is spent.”

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The creatures I seek do not want to be seen.

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Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.

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“Father had stretched out his long legs and was tilting back in his chair. Mother sat with her knees crossed, in blue slacks, smoking…

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I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done…

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It is madness to wear ladies' straw hats and velvet hats to church; we should all be wearing crash helmets. Ushers should issue life…

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The sense impressions of one-celled animals are not edited for the brain. This is philosophically interesting in a rather mournful way, since it means…

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“What can we make of the inexpressible joy of children? It is a kind of gratitude, I think—the gratitude of the ten-year-old who wakes…

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