There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.
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The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.Annie Dillard
No child on earth was ever meant to be ordinary, and you can see it in them, and they know it, too, but then the times get to them, and they wear out their brains learning what folks expect, and spend their strength trying to rise over those same folks.
Annie Dillard
The life of sensation is the life of greed it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less time is ample and its passage sweet.
Annie Dillard
Does anything eat flowers. I couldn't recall having seen anything eat a flower are they nature's privileged pets.
Annie Dillard
I think the dying pray at the last not please but thank you as a guest thanks his host at the door
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As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net.
Annie Dillard
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