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The locus of the human mystery is perception of this world. From it proceeds every thought, every art.

The locus of the human mystery is perception of this world. From it proceeds every thought, every art.
– Marilynne Robinson

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  1. But there is something about human beings that too often makes our love for the world look very much like hatred for it. – Marilynne Robinson
  2. 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. – Marilynne Robinson
  3. The broadest possible exercise of imagination is the thing most conducive to human health, individual and global – Marilynne Robinson
  4. The Fall is where the nation is. The Fall is the locus of America. – William Stringfellow
  5. Time is a structured perception of human brain on natural events. Eternity ain’t based on the human perception, but on perpetual cycle. – Toba Beta
  6. The art of teaching lies in communicating the mystery of the universe without taking the mystery out of it. – Dane R Pascoe
  7. It’s better to have nothing,’ the children were saying. – Marilynne Robinson
  8. My grandfather once told her if you couldn’t read with cold feet, there wouldn’t be a literate soul in the state of Maine. – Marilynne Robinson
  9. When I was a child, I read books. My reading was not indiscriminate. I preferred books that were old and thick and hard. I made vocabulary lists. – Marilynne Robinson
  10. How I wish you could have known me in my strength. – Marilynne Robinson
  11. It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire. – Marilynne Robinson
  12. That is to say, I pray for you. And there’s an intimacy in it. That’s the truth. – Marilynne Robinson
  13. 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. – Marilynne Robinson
  14. There are a thousand reasons to live this life, every one of them sufficient. – Marilynne Robinson
  15. remembering and forgiving can be contrary things – Marilynne Robinson
  16. She was a music I no longer heard, that rang in my mind, itself and nothing else, lost to all sense, but not perished, not perished. – Marilynne Robinson
  17. I believe there are visions that come to us only in memory, in retrospect. – Marilynne Robinson
  18. it’s hard to find time to think about Kansas. – Marilynne Robinson
  19. He looked up at her. Kindness was something he didn’t even know he wanted, and here it was. – Marilynne Robinson
  20. 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
  21. Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery. – Marilynne Robinson
  22. Avoid transgression. How’s that for advice. – Marilynne Robinson
  23. It is a good thing to know what it is to be poor, and a better thing if you can do it in company. – Marilynne Robinson
  24. Love is holy because it is like grace–the worthiness of its object is never really what matters. – Marilynne Robinson
  25. . . . there is an absolute disjunction between our Father’s love and our deserving. – Marilynne Robinson
  26. You never know when you might be seeing someone for the last time. – Marilynne Robinson
  27. …morality is a check upon the strongest temptations. – Marilynne Robinson
  28. Memory is the sense of loss, and loss pulls us after it. – Marilynne Robinson
  29. I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally. – Marilynne Robinson
  30. I’ve often been sorry to see a night end, even while I have loved seeing the dawn come. – Marilynne Robinson
  31. To have contrary [negative, wrong] intellect has become an odd rule in this current era, hasn’t it? The one who proceeds with caution will win. – Dada Bhagwan
  32. Children are God’s or nature’s practical joke on couples-”that which is produced by passion then proceeds to nearly kill it. – Dennis Prager
  33. Happiness is only for a short time then comes sadness which proceeds on overtime – AN Knight
  34. The road is long if one proceeds by way of precepts but short and effectual if by way of personal example. – Seneca
  35. Art for art’s sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804) – Benjamin Constant
  36. I’m an artist. I’m an artist and I’m going to make art! Art arty art art. – Andy Beirsack
  37. Art was art, humans were humans, but art was best when it was human. – Jonathan Smith
  38. He thought of his wife, of his son, of his youth. He thought of life. He thought of death and then he thought of life again. – Teodor Flonta
  39. It began in mystery and it will end in mystery, but what a rare and beautiful country lies in between. – Diane Ackerman
  40. Death an absolute mystery. No one knows the day and the time, no one knows where and how. Death is an absolute mystery. – Euginia Herlihy

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