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Marilynne Robinson

“I don't know exactly what covetous is, but in my experience it is not so much desiring someone else's virtue or happiness as rejecting it, taking offense at the beauty of it.”

Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
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Gilead (Gilead, #1) Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
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