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I don't know exactly what covetous is, but in my experience it is not so much desiring someone else's virtue or happiness as rejecting it, taking offense at the beauty of it.
Marilynne Robinson
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Marilynne Robinson
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: November 26
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Sandpoint
Idaho
Marilynne Summers Robinson
Marilynne S. Robinson
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I would advise you against defensiveness on priciple. it precludes the best eventualities along with the worst. At the most basic level it expresses a lack of faith.
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Memory is the sense of loss, and loss pulls us after it.
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A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension.
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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.
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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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A little too much anger, too often or at the wrong time, can destroy more than you would ever imagine.
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When we did not move or speak, there was no proof that we were there at all.
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Two questions I can't really answer about fiction are 1) where it comes from, and 2) why we need it. But that we do create it and also crave it is beyond dispute.
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Science can give us knowledge, but it cannot give us wisdom. Nor can religion, until it puts aside nonsense and distraction and becomes itself again.
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It is a good thing to know what it is to be poor, and a better thing if you can do it in company.
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Boughton says he has more ideas about heaven every day. He said, Mainly I just think about the splendors of the world and multiply by two. I'd multiply by ten or twelve if I had the energy.
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Every spirit passing through the world fingers the tangible and mars the mutable, and finally has come to look and not to buy.
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The best essays come from the moment in which people really need to work something out.
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It is one of the best traits of good people that they love where they pity. And this is truer of women than of men.
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This morning the world by moonlight seemed to be an immemorial acquaintance I had always meant to befriend. If there was ever a chance, it had passed. Strange to say, I feel a little that way about myself.
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I owe everything that I have done to the fact that I am very much at ease being alone.
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For me writing has always felt like praying even when I wasn't writing prayers.
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Every sorrow suggests a thousand songs and every song recalls a thousand sorrows and so they are infinite in number and all the same.
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