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

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

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  1. You never know when you might be seeing someone for the last time. – Marilynne Robinson
  2. 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
  3. I believe there are visions that come to us only in memory, in retrospect. – Marilynne Robinson
  4. 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
  5. Some of the people we feel sorry for feel sorry for us for thinking that they are the ones who should be felt sorry for. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  6. I am so tired of begging your sorry ???, chasing your sorry ass down, tying your sorry ass up. ~ Mercy – Lucian Bane
  7. Seeing Jesus prolongs your life. Seeing Jesus keeps you healthy. Seeing Jesus makes you strong. – Paul Silway
  8. When you are seeing a person, you are not really seeing him. You are seeing his reflection through the mirror of your mind. – Debasish Mridha
  9. Good night! Good night!Far flies the light;But still God’s loveShall shine above,Making all bright,Good night! Good night! – Victor Hugo
  10. It’s better to have nothing,’ the children were saying. – Marilynne Robinson
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. How I wish you could have known me in my strength. – Marilynne Robinson
  14. It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire. – Marilynne Robinson
  15. That is to say, I pray for you. And there’s an intimacy in it. That’s the truth. – Marilynne Robinson
  16. 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
  17. There are a thousand reasons to live this life, every one of them sufficient. – Marilynne Robinson
  18. remembering and forgiving can be contrary things – Marilynne Robinson
  19. 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
  20. The broadest possible exercise of imagination is the thing most conducive to human health, individual and global – Marilynne Robinson
  21. it’s hard to find time to think about Kansas. – Marilynne Robinson
  22. He looked up at her. Kindness was something he didn’t even know he wanted, and here it was. – Marilynne Robinson
  23. 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
  24. Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery. – Marilynne Robinson
  25. Avoid transgression. How’s that for advice. – Marilynne Robinson
  26. 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
  27. Love is holy because it is like grace–the worthiness of its object is never really what matters. – Marilynne Robinson
  28. . . . there is an absolute disjunction between our Father’s love and our deserving. – Marilynne Robinson
  29. …morality is a check upon the strongest temptations. – Marilynne Robinson
  30. Memory is the sense of loss, and loss pulls us after it. – Marilynne Robinson
  31. 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
  32. The locus of the human mystery is perception of this world. From it proceeds every thought, every art. – Marilynne Robinson
  33. Seeing the obvious is often harder than seeing the hidden! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  34. The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night? – John Fowles
  35. Never let a man stay the night. Dawn has a way of casting a pall on any night magic. – Janet Fitch
  36. We are born to be loved, we live to be loved, and we die to be loved; so life is for love. – Debasish Mridha
  37. Be whoever you want to be. Party all night if you want. Just come home to me. – Dawn Atkins
  38. The dawn of space travel is the dawn of woman. – Samuel R Delany
  39. As a kid, she’d always loved Halloween. A magic night. A night when anything could happen. Monsters could be real. Magic could whisper in the air. – Cynthia Eden
  40. So, so sorry. Really sorry. Master. Sir. Emperor of the world. God of the universe. – Cherise Sinclair

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