Annie DillardI think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you.
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Of all things, one’s greatest necessity is the one thing you cannot get anywhere else. When you understand this, you tend to make more intelligent decisions. You begin to see what is possible for yourself and you work harder to achieve it, because your goal is closer than ever before.
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