Annie Dillard
Respond to cruelty as a witness to beauty
Cruelty is a mystery, and the waste of pain. But if we describe a world to compass these things, a world that is a long, brute game, then we bump against another mystery: the inrush of power and light…beauty, a grace wholly gratuitous, as careless and spontaneous as the
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