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I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.

Annie Dillard

As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.

Annie Dillard

Just think: in all the clean, beautiful reaches of the solar system, our planet alone is a blot; our planet alone has death.

Annie Dillard

You can't test courage cautiously.

Annie Dillard

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Annie Dillard

There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.

Annie Dillard

Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.

Annie Dillard

There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.

Annie Dillard

The notion of the infinite variety of detail and the multiplicity of forms is a pleasing one; in complexity are the fringes of beauty, and in variety are generosity and exuberance.

Annie Dillard