Frasi di Annie Dillard (64 frasi, pagina 3)

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“Mi piacerebbe imparare, o ricordare, come vivere. Non credo di poter imparare dagli animali selvatici come vivere concretamente (dovrò succhiare sangue caldo, tenere la coda ritta, camminare mettendo i piedi esattamente nell'impronta delle mani?) ma potrei imparare qualcosa di irrazionale, qualcosa della purezza di vivere in senso fisico e la dignità di vivere senza pregiudizi o ragioni.”

Annie Dillard

Origine: Citato in Marcus Parisini, L'anima degli animali, Edizioni Biblioteca dell'Immagine, Pordenone, 2002, p. 46. ISBN 88-87881-68-5

Annie Dillard: Frasi in inglese

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. 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. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order—willed, faked, and so brought into being; it is a peace and a haven set into the wreck of time; it is a lifeboat on which you find yourself, decades later, still living. Each day is the same, so you remember the series afterward as a blurred and powerful pattern.”

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Annie Dillard

The Writing Life (1989)

“The world which lay under darkness and stillness following the closing of the lid was not the world we know. The event was over. Its devastation lay around about us. The clamoring mind and heart stilled, almost indifferent, certainly disembodied, frail, and exhausted. The hills were hushed, obliterated. Up in the sky, like a crater from some distant cataclysm, was a hollow ring.”

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" Total Eclipse https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/08/annie-dillards-total-eclipse/536148/", Teaching a Stone to Talk (1982)

“Any three-year-old can see how unsatisfactory and clumsy is this whole business of reproducing and dying by the billions. We have not yet encountered any god who is as merciful as a man who flicks a beetle over on its feet. There is not a people in the world that behaves as badly as praying mantises. But wait, you say, there is no right and wrong in nature; right and wrong is a human concept. Precisely: we are moral creatures, then, in an amoral world. The universe that suckled us is a monster that does not care if we live or die—does not care if it itself grinds to a halt. It is fixed and blind, a robot programmed to kill. We are free and seeing; we can only try to outwit it at every turn to save our skins.”

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" The Force That Drives the Flower https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1973/11/the-force-that-drives-the-flower/308963/", The Atlantic, Nov. 1973

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