"Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed?"

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Annie Dillard

#Reading Quotes #Mystery Quotes

“My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.”

Source : "Revolutionary Suicide". p. 190. Book by Huey Newton, 1973.
“Life is the twofold internal movement of composition and decomposition at once general and continuous.”
“There comes a time in every man's life when he is either going to go fishing or do something worse.”
“When life is rosy, we may slide by with knowing about Jesus, with imitating him and quoting him and speaking of him. But only in suffering will we know Jesus.”
“Budgets are moral documents. Federal funding should reflect the priorities and the values of the majority of the American people.”
“One consistent thing in an otherwise inconsistent career is that I've always been passionate about parliament.”

Source : Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2011.
“I love acting, and that's my passion. So I would love to do more movies and some serious things”
“youth is a marvelous garment”

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