Marilynne Robinson quote: Our humanity consists in the fact that we do more than survive, that a great part of what we do ...

Our humanity consists in the fact that we do more than survive, that a great part of what we do confers no survival benefit in terms presumably salient from the Pleistocene point of view.

~ Marilynne Robinson ~

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