“Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you.”
Annie Dillard (1945) American writer
Source: The Writing Life
“Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.”
Source: The Writing Life
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