We experience pain and difficulty as failure instead of saying, I will pass through this, everyone I have ever admired has passed through this, music has come out of it, literature has come out of it. We should think of our humanity as a privilege.
I want to overhear passionate arguments about what we are and what we are doing and what we ought to do. I want to feel that art is an utterance made… - Marilynne Robinson
I want to overhear passionate arguments about what we are and what we are doing and what we ought to do. I want to feel that art is an utterance made…
- Marilynne Robinson
There is so little to remember of anyone - an anecdote, a conversation at a table. But every memory is turned over and over again, every word, howeve… - Marilynne Robinson
There is so little to remember of anyone - an anecdote, a conversation at a table. But every memory is turned over and over again, every word, howeve…
There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm. - Marilynne Robinson
There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm.
For our purposes as human beings, the mind is the center of everything. - Marilynne Robinson
For our purposes as human beings, the mind is the center of everything.
We are part of a mystery, a splendid mystery within which we must attempt to orient ourselves if we are to have a sense of our own nature. - Marilynne Robinson
We are part of a mystery, a splendid mystery within which we must attempt to orient ourselves if we are to have a sense of our own nature.
Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the sile… - Marilynne Robinson
Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the sile…
We experience pain and difficulty as failure instead of saying, I will pass through this, everyone I have ever admired has passed through this, music… - Marilynne Robinson
We experience pain and difficulty as failure instead of saying, I will pass through this, everyone I have ever admired has passed through this, music…
You build your mind, so make it into something you want to live with. - Marilynne Robinson
You build your mind, so make it into something you want to live with.
This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it. - Marilynne Robinson
This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.
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