Marilynne Robinson Quote

Every single one of us is a little civilization built on the ruins of any number of preceding civilizations, but with our own variant notions of what is beautiful and what is acceptable - which, I haste to add, we generally do not satisfy and by which we struggle to live.


Gilead (ed. Hachette UK, 2009) - ISBN: 9780748113507


Every single one of us is a little civilization built on the ruins of any number of preceding civilizations, but with our own variant notions of what ...

Every single one of us is a little civilization built on the ruins of any number of preceding civilizations, but with our own variant notions of what ...

Every single one of us is a little civilization built on the ruins of any number of preceding civilizations, but with our own variant notions of what ...

Every single one of us is a little civilization built on the ruins of any number of preceding civilizations, but with our own variant notions of what ...