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Only Quotes by Annie Dillard
- We are here to witness the creation and to abet it. We are here to notice each thing so each thing gets noticed. Together we…
- I have since only rarely seen the tree with the lights in it. The vision comes and goes, mostly goes, but I live for it,…
- Peeping through my keyhold I see within the range of only about 30 percent of the light that comes from the sun; the rest is…
- You search, you break your heart, your back, your brain, and then-and only then-it is handed to you.
- We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place.
- The universe is illusion merely, not one speck of it real, and we are not only its victims, falling always into or smashed by a…
- We teach our children one thing only, as we were taught: to wake up. We teach our children to look alive there, to join by…
- 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 that…
- Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry…
- At its best, the sensation of writing is that of any unmerited grace. It is handed to you, but only if you look for it.
- How can people think that artists seek a name? There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as…
- 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…
- Wherever we go, there seems to be only one business at hand - that of finding workable compromises between the sublimity of our ideas and…
- There is no such thing as an artist: there is only the world lit or unlit as the light allows. When the candle is burning,…
- Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and…
- I am sorry I ran from you. I am still running, running from that knowledge, that eye, that love from which there is no refuge.…
- The universe that suckled us is a monster that does not care if we live or die--it does not care if it itself grinds to…
- There was only silence. It was the silence of matter caught in the act and embarrassed. There were no cells moving, and yet there were…
- There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows.
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