Memory is the sense of loss, and loss pulls us after it.
Marilynne RobinsonMots clés memories
But every memory is turned over and over again, every word, however chance, written in the heart in the hope that memory will fulfill itself, and become flesh, and that the wanderers will find a way home, and the perished, whose lack we always feel, will step through the door finally and stroke our hair with dreaming, habitual fondness, not having meant to keep us waiting long.
Marilynne RobinsonMots clés memories
Every spirit passing through the world fingers the tangible and mars the mutable, and finally has come to look and not to buy.
Marilynne RobinsonYou never bother me, Glory. It's remarkable how much you don't bother me. Almost unprecedented.
Marilynne Robinson...not deciding to act would be identical with deciding not to act.
Marilynne RobinsonMemory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.
Marilynne RobinsonPeople talk about how wonderful the world seems to children, and that's true enough. But children think they will grow into it and understand it, and I know very well that I will not, and would not if I had a dozen lives.
Marilynne RobinsonMots clés children-understanding
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, even if you're just quietly going about a life of your own choosing. They will make you doubt yourself, which, depending on cases, can be a severe distraction and a waste of time. This is a thing I wish I had understood much earlier than I did.
Marilynne RobinsonI am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.
Marilynne RobinsonMots clés mindfulness regret
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Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the silent and invisible life.
Marilynne RobinsonMots clés sabbath sunday-life
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