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Love Quotes by Marilynne Robinson
- You have to live with your mind your whole life.
- You build your mind, so make it into something you want to live with.
- There are worries that seem to me sustained by the love of worry. For example, that people are reading from screens, or listening to recorded…
- 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…
- Fiction may be, whatever else, an exercise in the capacity for imaginative love, or sympathy, or identification,
- I listen to Bach a great deal. In general I like to listen to hymns and liturgical music.
- 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.
- Any father…must finally give his child up to the wilderness and trust to the providence of God. It seems almost a cruelty for one generation…
- . . . there is an absolute disjunction between our Father's love and our deserving.
- 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,…
- It seems to me people tend to forget that we are to love our enemies, not to satisfy some standard of righteousness but because God…
- A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension.
- 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…
- Memory is the sense of loss, and loss pulls us after it.
- ...not deciding to act would be identical with deciding not to act.
- Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.
- It all means more than I can tell you. So you must not judge what I know by what I find words for.
- Grace has a grand laughter in it.
- --"There is no justice in love...it is only the glimpse or parable of an incomprehensible reality... the eternal breaking in on the the temporal.
- It is possible to know the great truths without feeling the truth of them.
- What an embarrassment that was, being somewhere because there was nowhere else for you to be.
- Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.
- You see how it is godlike to love the being of someone. Your existence is a delight to us. I hope you never have to…
- ... but it's your existence I love you for, mainly. Existence seems to me now the most remarkable thing that could ever be imagined.
- 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…
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- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe. — Dario Argento
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide