Marilynne Robinson - I read things like theology, and I read about science, 'Scientific American...

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I read things like theology, and I read about science, 'Scientific American' and publications like that, because they stimulate again and again my sense of the almost arbitrary given-ness of experience, the fact that nothing can be taken for granted.

Marilynne Robinson

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Ich lese Dinge wie Theologie, und ich lese über Wissenschaft, 'Scientific American' und Publikationen wie diese, weil sie immer wieder mein Gefühl für die fast willkürliche Gegebenheit der Erfahrung anregen, dass nichts selbstverständlich ist.

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