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Beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.

Beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.
– Annie Dillard

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  2. She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. – Annie Dillard
  3. She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. She read books as one would breathe ether, to sink in and die. – Annie Dillard
  4. Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them. – Annie Dillard
  5. Private life, book life, took place where words met imagination without passing through the world. – Annie Dillard
  6. I am a fugitive and a vagabond, a sojourner seeking signs. – Annie Dillard
  7. Nature’s silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block. – Annie Dillard
  8. I set up and staged hundreds of ends-of-the-world and watched, enthralled, as they played themselves out. – Annie Dillard
  9. How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour and with that one, is what we are doing. – Annie Dillard
  10. I would like to learn, or remember, how to live. – Annie Dillard
  11. Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark. – Annie Dillard
  12. The silence is not suppression; instead, it is all there is. – Annie Dillard
  13. I smelled silt on the wind, turkey, laundry, leaves . . . my God what a world. There is no accounting for one second of it (267). – Annie Dillard
  14. You can read in the space of a coffin, and you can write in the space of a toolshed meant for mowers and spades. – Annie Dillard
  15. On plenty of days the writer can write three or four pages, and on plenty of other days he concludes he must throw them away. – Annie Dillard
  16. The writing that so thrills and exhilarates you, as if you were dancing right next to the band, is barely audible to anyone else. – Annie Dillard
  17. Now the thing is no longer a vision: it is paper. – Annie Dillard
  18. I was still ringing. I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck. – Annie Dillard
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  22. I always believed that If I’m not carrying at least a slight poetically painful crack in my heart I’ve been cheated by nature. – Annie Ali
  23. Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense. – Yann Martel
  24. Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is color that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense. – Yann Martel
  25. Then sense. Use your sense. Not all of us are born for greatness, but all of us have sense. Make use of it. Think. Think long and well. – Richard Llewellyn
  26. Whether you try too hard to fit in or you try too hard to stand out, it is of equal consequence: you exhaust your significance. – Criss Jami
  27. To manifest the beauty of life, think beauty, dream beauty, and see the beauty in the simple things all around you. – Debasish Mridha
  28. The moral sense in mortals is the dutyWe have to pay on mortal sense of beauty. – Vladimir Nabokov
  29. Discipline is to present us before grace, it does not produce grace to make sense. – Richard J Foster
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  34. I believe Jesus wasn’t thinking about miracle when He performed it. He’s just doing normal activities as he did in His heavenly kingdom. – Toba Beta
  35. There is a sacred duty, which you are divinely gifted to performed. – Lailah Gifty Akita
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  37. Life for me is just a result of experiments being performed by far more developed creatures. – Hasil Paudyal
  38. James Smith argues that liturgies -œare compressed, performed narratives that recruit the imagination through the body. – James KA Smith
  39. The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury. – Marcus Aurelius
  40. In the end, it doesn’t matter how well we have performed or what we have accomplished-”a life without heart is not worth living. – John Eldredge

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