I remember when I was a child... walking into the woods by myself and feeling the solitude around me build like electricity and pass through my body with a jolt that made my hair prickle.
- Marilynne Robinson
Francesca Woodman, Untitled, Providence, Rhode Island, 1976
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.
- Marilynne Robinson
Sophie Calle, Suite Vénitienne, 1980
Sophie Calle, The Shadow, 1981I think about things like the fact that nobody knows what time is. Time is what? Nobody can describe it, even physics or math or anything else. But it is what we continuously experience. It's the state of our unfolding, in a way, and in that sense that the continuous reopening of reality is what I think of as, perhaps, a worldview.
- Marilynne Robinson
Sophie Calle, Les Dormeurs (The Sleepers), 1979
We experience pain and difficulty as failure instead of saying, I will pass through this, everyone I have ever admired has passed through this, music has come out of it, literature has come out of it. We should think of our humanity as a privilege.
- Marilynne Robinson
The mind, whatever else it is, is a constant of everyone's experience, and, in more ways than we know, the creator of the reality that we live within... Nothing is more essential to us.
- Marilynne Robinson
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 Robinson
Sophie Calle, Où et quand? Berck (detail), 2004/2008
You build your mind, so make it into something you want to live with.
- Marilynne Robinson
I was read to as a small child, I read on my own as soon as I could, and I recall being more or less overwhelmed again and again - if not by what the books actually said, by what they suggested, what they helped me to imagine.
- Marilynne Robinson
Realism falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our basic truths and our fundamental obsessions: love, death, astonishment. It presents man in a reduced and estranged perspective. Truth is in our dreams, in the imagination.
- Eugene Ionseco
It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
- Eugene Ionseco
This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.
- Marilynne Robinson
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