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Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.
Category: Carpe Diem Author: Annie Dillard
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How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
Category: Carpe Diem Author: Annie Dillard
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There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable. There is no way you can tell the child that if language had been a melody, he had mastered it and done well, but that since it was in fact a sense, he had botched it utterly.
Category: Language Author: Annie Dillard
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There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.
Category: Light Author: Annie Dillard
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An Inuit hunter asked the local missionary priest: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" "No," said the priest, "not if you did not know." "Then why," asked the Inuit earnestly, "did you tell me?"
Category: Religion Author: Annie Dillard
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If you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days.
Category: Simplicity Author: Annie Dillard
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The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out.
Category: Water Author: Annie Dillard
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