Madeleine L'Engle Cool & famous Quotes by

A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.

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• Science

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

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• Writing

If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.

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• Faith

Qui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks.

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• Knowledge

I do not know everything; still many things I understand.

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• Wisdom

Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. - Mrs. Whatsit

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• Life

Euripedes. Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.

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• Hope

A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.

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• Books

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

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• Faith