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Annie Dillard Quotes
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We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all.
Could Faulkner find a publisher now?
Every spring he vowed to quit teaching school, and every summer he missed his pupils and searched for them on the streets.
The secret of seeing is to sail on solar wind. Hone and spread your spirit till you yourself are a sail, whetted, translucent, broadside to the merest puff.
Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.
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 planet slung by the sun-but also its captives, bound by the mineral-made ropes of our senses.
Inspirational Quote
Here is the secret of inspiration: tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.
Motivational Quote
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Wisdom Quote
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
Life Quote
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
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