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«A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.»
Author: Annie Dillard
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catching, From Chaos, net, scaffolding, sections, whim, worker
«Because how we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.»
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«You can't test courage cautiously.»
«Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.»
«As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.»
Author: Annie Dillard
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Beauty
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degrades, pleasure seeker, seeker, sought
«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.»
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«It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination... If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.»
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cowardice, cower, cowering, existed, faithlessness, in all likelihood, likelihood, massive, smallness
«I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.»
Author: Annie Dillard
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«I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my share of eating too. I am not washed and beautiful, in control of a shining world in which everything fits, but instead am wondering awed about on a splintered wreck I've come to care for, whose gnawed trees breathe a delicate air, whose bloodied and scarred creatures are my dearest companions, and whose beauty bats and shines not in its imperfections but overwhelmingly in spite of them...»
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«If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be too cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.»
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