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Madeleine L'Engle - From the Aging category:
The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been. (Madeleine L'Engle)
Madeleine L'Engle - From the Art category:
Infinity is present in each part. A loving smile contains all art. The motes of starlight spark and dart. A grain of sand holds power and might. (Madeleine L'Engle)
Madeleine L'Engle - From the Creativity category:
But unless we are creators, we are not fully alive. (Madeleine L'Engle)
Madeleine L'Engle - From the Discovery category:
We tend to think things are new because we've just discovered them. (Madeleine L'Engle)
Madeleine L'Engle - From the Insecurity category:
It's good to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand. (Madeleine L'Engle)
Madeleine L'Engle - From the Responsibility category:
Our truest responsibility to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find the truth. (Madeleine L'Engle)
Madeleine L'Engle - From the Symphony category:
When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony. (Madeleine L'Engle)
Madeleine L'Engle - From the Temperament category:
Artistic temperament... sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling. When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony. (Madeleine L'Engle)
Madeleine L'Engle - From the Truth category:
Truth is eternal, knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them. (Madeleine L'Engle)
Madeleine L'Engle - From the Understanding category:
That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along. (Madeleine L'Engle)
Madeleine L'Engle - From the Vulnerability category:
When we were children we thought that when we were grown up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable. (Madeleine L'Engle)
Madeleine L'Engle - From the Writing category:
When we are writing, or painting, or composing, we are, during the time of creativity, freed from normal restrictions, and are opened to a wider world, where colors are brighter, sounds clearer, and people more wondrously complex than we normally realize. (Madeleine L'Engle)
Madeleine L'Engle - From the Writing category:
You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, you write it for children. (Madeleine L'Engle)
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