Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle, …

Annie Dillard
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Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle, curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face of a leaf ✨ Annie Dillard (2016). The Abundance, p.105, Canongate Books
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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. ✨ Annie Dillard (2016). The Abundance, p.105, Canongate … ▶

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle, curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face of a leaf ✨ Annie Dillard (2016). The Abundance, p.105, Canongate Books

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