Cruelty is a mystery, and the waste of pain. But if we describe a word to compass these things, a world that is a long, brute game, then we bump against another mystery: the inrush of power and delight, the canary that sings on the skull.
We live in all we seek. - Annie Dillard
We live in all we seek.
- Annie Dillard
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. - Annie Dillard
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
You do what you do out of your private love of the thing itself. - Annie Dillard
You do what you do out of your private love of the thing itself.
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 notice not only each mou… - 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 notice not only each mou…
Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you. - Annie Dillard
Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.
Make connections; let rip; and dance where you can. - Annie Dillard
Make connections; let rip; and dance where you can.
Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery. - Annie Dillard
Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
How you spend your days is how you spend your life. - Annie Dillard
How you spend your days is how you spend your life.
No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land. - Annie Dillard
No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
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