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Marilynne Robinson  Quotes
It has seemed to me sometimes as though the Lord breathes on this poor gray ember of Creation and it turns to radiance – for a moment or a year or the span of a...

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Beauty
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Language is music. Written words are musical notation. The music of a piece of fiction establishes the way in which it is to be read, and, in the largest sense, what it means. It is...

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I’ve often been sorry to see a night end, even while I have loved seeing the dawn come.

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…when we condescend, when we act consistently with a sense of the character of people in general which demeans them, we impoverish them AND ourselves, and preclude our having a part in the creation of...

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BeautyCondescension
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…when I see a man or woman alone, he or she looks mysterious to me, which is only to say that for a moment I see another human being clearly.

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I’ve shepherded a good many people through their lives, I’ve baptized babies by the hundred, and all that time I have felt as though a great part of life was closed to me. Your mother...

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Loneliness
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I have been thinking about existence lately. In fact, I have been so full of admiration for existence that I have hardly been able to enjoy it properly . . . I feel sometimes as...

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Death
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Families will not be broken. Curse and expel them, send their children wandering, drown them in floods and fires, and old women will make songs of all these sorrows and sit on the porch and...

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Family
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. . . there is an absolute disjunction between our Father’s love and our deserving.

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Grace
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Dawn and its excesses always reminded me of heaven, a place where I have always known I would not be comfortable.

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The twinkling of an eye. That is the most wonderful expression. I’ve thought from time to time it was the best thing in life, that little incandescence you see in people when the charm of...

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Joy
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I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.

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MindfulnessRegret
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It’s better to have nothing,’ the children were saying.

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BeautyHomelessnessPoetic-Fiction
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The best things that happen I’d never have thought to pray for. In a million years. The worst things just come like the weather.

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Fate
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For need can blossom into all the compensation it requires. To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly...

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There is no justice in love, no proportion in it, and there need not be, because in any specific instance it is only a glimpse or parable of an embracing, incomprehensible reality. It makes no...

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We had been assured by our elders that intelligence was a family trait. All my kin and forebears were people of substantial or remarkable intellect, thought somehow none of them had prospered in the world....

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There was no way to abandon guilt, no decent way to disown it. All the tangles and knots of bitterness and desperation and fear had to be pitied. No, better, grace had to fall over...

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She knew that was not an honest prayer, and she did not linger over it. The right prayer would have been, Lord . . . I am miserable and bitter at heart, and old fears...

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But there is something about human beings that too often makes our love for the world look very much like hatred for it.

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I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of expectation. I expected — an arrival, an explanation, an apology. There had never been one, a fact...

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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.

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BeautyBraveCourage
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He looked up at her. Kindness was something he didn’t even know he wanted, and here it was.

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Kindness
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It’s not a man’s working hours that is important, it is how he spends his leisure time.

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Integrity
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I experience religious dread whenever I find myself thinking that I know the limits of God’s grace, since I am utterly certain it exceeds any imagination a human being might have of it. God does,...

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Her name had the likeness of a name. She had the likeness of a woman, with hands but no face at all, since she never let herself see it. She had the likeness of a...

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When you encounter another person, when you have dealings with anyone at all, it is as if a question is being put to you. So you must think, What is the Lord asking of me...

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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 in good faith by...

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Art
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And I’d pray for them. And I’d imagine peace they couldn’t expect and couldn’t account for descending on their illness or their quarreling or their dreams.

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Prayer
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If we do not know the character of being itself – I have never seen anyone suggest that we do know it – then there is an inevitable superficiality in any claim to an exhaustive...

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Being
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I’ll pray that you grow up a brave man in a brave country. I will pray you find a way to be useful.I’ll pray, and then I’ll sleep.

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BeautyBraveCourage
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You never know when you might be seeing someone for the last time.

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RegretSad
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Then there is the matter of my mother’s abandonment of me. Again, this is the common experience. They walk ahead of us, and walk too fast, and forget us, they are so lost in thoughts...

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I think hope is the worst thing in the world. I really do. It makes a fool of you while it lasts. And then when it’s gone, it’s like there’s nothing left of you at...

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Hope
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I have never distinguished readily between thinking and dreaming. I know my life would be much different if I could ever say, This I have learned from my senses, while that I have merely imagined.

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In eternity this world will be like Troy, I believe, and all that has passed here will be the epic of the universe, the ballad they sing in the streets.

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Heaven
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I’ve developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by far, than I learned anything useful from, except, of course, that some...

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That is to say, I pray for you. And there’s an intimacy in it. That’s the truth.

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She knew there were words so terrible you heard them with your whole body. Guilty. And there were voices to say them. She knew there were people you might almost trust who would hear them,...

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It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire.

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BeautyBraveCourage
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My point in mentioning this is only to say that people who feel any sort of regret where you are concerned will suppose you are angry, and they will see anger in what you do,...

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She knew better than to waste that time. There isn’t always someone who wants you singing to him or nibbling his ear or brushing his cheek with a dandelion blossom. Somebody who knows when you’re...

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MotherhoodNewborns
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If the Lord is more gracious than any of us can begin to imagine, and I’m sure He is, then your Doll and a whole lot of people are safe, and warm, and very happy....

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Hope
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Our humanity consists in the fact that we do more than survive, that a great part of what we do confers no survival benefit in terms presumably salient from the Pleistocene point of view.

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HumanitySurvival
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There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, everyone of them sufficient

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MindfulnessSuicide
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I love the writers of my thousand books. It pleases me to think how astonished old Homer, whoever he was, would be to find his epics on the shelf of such an unimaginable being as...

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BooksLiteraturePoetry
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I wish I could leave you certain of the images in my mind, because they are so beautiful that I hate to think they will be extinguished when I am. Well, but again, this life...

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MemoryMortalityPast
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In that eternity of his, where everybody will be happy, how could he feel the lack of her, the loss of her?

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Afterlife
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Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.

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LifeMemory
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How I wish you could have known me in my strength.

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BeautyBraveCourage
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