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An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy... If I try self-consciously to become a person, I will never be one. The most real

An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy... If I try self-consciously to become a person, I will never be one. The most real people, those who are able to forget their selfish selves, who have true compassion, are usually the most distinct individuals

Madeleine L'Engle
Laughter, Selfish, Real
"A Circle of Quiet (Crosswicks Journals, Book 1)". Book by Madeleine L'Engle (Section 1.10), 1972.

This wasn't the first time that I'd come close to death, but it was the first time I'd been involved in this part of it, this strange, terrible saying goodbye to someone you've loved.

Madeleine L'Engle
Goodbye, Firsts, Strange
Madeleine L'Engle (2008). “A Ring of Endless Light: The Austin Family Chronicles”, p.7, Macmillan

Don't be afraid..." We need this reassurance. Even for those of us who believe implicitly in angels, to be confronted by one is an awesome thing."

Madeleine L'Engle
Believe, Angel, Needs

A great painting or symphony or play, doesn't diminish us, but enlarges us, and we, too, want to make our own cry of affirmation to the power of Creation behind the Universe.

Madeleine L'Engle
Dream, Play, Symphony
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.89, Open Road Media

Meg, I give you your faults." "My faults!" Meg cried. "Your faults." "But I'm always trying to get rid of my faults!" "Yes," Mrs. Whatsit said. "However, I think you'll find they'll come in very handy on Camazotz.

Madeleine L'Engle
Thinking, Always Trying, Giving
Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.59, Macmillan

I'm apt to get drunk on words...Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being.

Madeleine L'Engle
Essence, Drunk, Ontology

It was a dark and stormy night.

Madeleine L'Engle
Dark, Night, Snoopy
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.43, Open Road Media

It's not my brain that's writing the book, it's these hands of mine.

Madeleine L'Engle
Book, Writing, Hands

You've got to accept the fact that you are basically not teaching a subject, you are teaching children

Madeleine L'Engle
Children, Teaching, Facts
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.94, Open Road Media

We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature.

Madeleine L'Engle
Life, Way, Mature
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.192, Open Road Media

I can't think of one great human being in the arts, or in history generally, who conformed, who succeeded, as education experts tell us children must succeed, with his peer group.

Madeleine L'Engle
Success, Art, Children
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.35, Open Road Media

Accepting that we are angry is a healthy and appropriate response as long as we don't get stuck in it. Acknowledging it is one way of going through it.

Madeleine L'Engle
Long, Healthy, Way
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage”, p.82, Open Road Media

Reading is a creative activity. You have to visualize the characters, you have to hear what the voices sound like.

Madeleine L'Engle
Reading, Character, Voice

you and I have good enough minds to know how very limited and finite they really are. The naked intellect is an extraordinarily inaccurate instrument.

Madeleine L'Engle
Mind, Naked, Good Enough
Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.181, Macmillan

One cannot be humble and aware of oneself at the same time.

Madeleine L'Engle
Inspiring, Humble, Humility
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.9, Open Road Media

The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions.

Madeleine L'Engle
Thinking, Deep Thought, Answers
Twitter post from Sep 08, 2016

My protagonists, male and female, are me.

Madeleine L'Engle
Males, Female, Protagonists
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.18, Open Road Media

No long-term marriage is made easily, and there have been times when I've been so angry or so hurt that I thought my love would never recover.

Madeleine L'Engle
Hurt, Long, Made
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.51, Open Road Media

The degree of talent, the size of the gift, is immaterial. All artists must listen, but not all hear great symphonies, see wide canvasses, conceive complex, character-filled novels. No matter, the creative act is the same, and it is an act of faith.

Madeleine L'Engle
Character, Artist, Symphony
FaceBook post by Madeleine L'Engle from Jan 01, 2017

What can we give a child when there is nothing left?

Madeleine L'Engle
Children, Giving, Left
"A Circle of Quiet (Crosswicks Journals, Book 1)". Book by Madeleine L'Engle, 1971.

I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was bright, And round beneath it, Time, in hours, days, years, Driven by the spheres, Like a vast shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurled.

Madeleine L'Engle
Time, Night, Light
Madeleine L'Engle (2008). “A Ring of Endless Light: The Austin Family Chronicles”, p.57, Macmillan

To be alive is to be vulnerable.

Madeleine L'Engle
Alive, Vulnerable
"Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art". Book by Madeleine L'Engle, 1972.

Anger is not bitterness. Bitterness can go on eating at a man's heart and mind forever. Anger spends itself in its own time.

Madeleine L'Engle
Heart, Men, Forever
Madeleine L'Engle (1978). “A Swiftly Tilting Planet”, p.158, Macmillan

I am not some kind of computer. Only machines have glib answers for everything.

Madeleine L'Engle
Machines, Answers, Kind
Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “The Wrinkle in Time Quintet”, p.299, Macmillan

I am also four, and twelve, and fifteen, and twenty-three, and thirty-one, and forty-five and . . . and . . . and . . .

Madeleine L'Engle
Twenties, Twelve, Three
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.169, Convergent Books

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