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“As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.”
 
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Name:   Annie Dillard
 
Nationality:   American
 
Date of Birth:   Apr 30, 1945
 
Profession:   Author
 
 
 
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I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be awake continuously and never slip back, and never be free of myself again.
 
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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.
 
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Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones - maybe only the stones - understood.
 
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