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Annie Dillard Quotes: Time is the continuous loop, the snakeskin with scales endlessly overlapping without beginning or end, or time is an ascending spiral if you will, like a child's toy Slinky.
         

Time is the continuous loop, the snakeskin with scales endlessly overlapping without beginning or end, or time is an ascending spiral if you will, like a child's toy Slinky.


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Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.



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The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.



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I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.



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The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.





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