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Quote by Annie Dillard
There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spirit

There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind. – Annie Dillard

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The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out. – Annie Dillard

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There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable. – Annie Dillard

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Age
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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. – Annie Dillard

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Love is not consolation. It is light. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Is there anything more loyal than the sun? – Mary Oliver

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What is to give light must endure burning. – Viktor Frankl

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A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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