25 April 2022

April 27, 2022 / Elisa

The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more.
The life of the spirit requires less and less; time is ample
and its passage sweet.

~ Annie Dillard (b. 1945), American novelist, essayist, memoirist;
Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction, 1975; from The Writing Life, 1989

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