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It was a dark and stormy night.
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You mean you're comparing our lives to a sonnet? A strict form, but freedom within it? Yes. Mrs. Whatsit said. You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. What you say is completely up to you.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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Meg, don't you think you'd make a better adjustment to life if you faced facts?" I do face facts," Meg said. They're lots easier to face than people, I can tell you." --
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter.
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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.
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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.
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finite
joy
laughter
questions
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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Anger is not bitterness. Bitterness can go on eating at a man's heart and mind forever. Anger spends itself in its own time.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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Love. That was what she had that IT did not have.
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We live by revelation, as Christians, as artists, which means we must be careful never to get set into rigid molds. The minute we begin to think we know all the answers, we forget the questions, and we become smug like the Pharisee who listed all his considerable virtues, and thanked God that he was not like other men. Unamuno might be describing the artist as well as the Christian as he writes, "Those who believe they believe in God, but w..
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christian-living
doubt
faith
god
suffering
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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Art is communication.
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communication
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do.
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But my memories are like a fire in winter--whenever I'm cold I can warm my hands at them. --Ditta
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Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions.
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Progo,' Meg asked. 'You memorized the names of all the stars - how many are there?' How many? Great heavens, earthling. I haven't the faintest idea.' But you said your last assignment was to memorize the names of all of them.' I did. All the stars in all the galaxies. And that's a great many.' But how many?' What difference does it make? I know their names. I don't know how many there are. It's their names that matter.
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The artist is a servant who is willing to be a birthgiver. In a very real sense the artist (male or female) should be like Mary who, when the angel told her that she was to bear the Messiah, was obedient to the command. ...I believe that each work of art, whether it is a work of great genius, or something very small, comes to the artist and says, "Here I am. Enflesh me. Give birth to me." And the artist either says, "My soul doth magnify th..
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creativity
obedience
writing
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.
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craft
creative-process
painting
wholeness
writing
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are.
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normalcy
pretend
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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One cannot be humble and aware of oneself at the same time.
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It was the same way with silence. This was more than silence. A deaf person can feel vibrations. Here there was nothing to feel.
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Itt iss Eevill..." "What is going to happen?" "Wee wwill cconnttinnue tto ffightt!"... "And we're not alone, you know, children," came Mrs.Whatsit, the comforter. "...some of the best fighters have come from your own planet..." "Who have our fighters been?" Calvin asked. "Oh, you must know them, dear," Mrs.Whatsit said. Mrs.Who's spectacles shone out at them triumphantly. "And the light shineth in the darkness; and the darkness..
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A great ring of pure & endless light Dazzles the darkness in my heart And breaks apart the dusky clouds of night. The end of all is hinted in the start. When we are born we bear the seeds of blight; Around us life & death are torn apart, Yet a great ring of pure and endless light Dazzles the darkness in my heart. It lights the world to my delight. Infinity is present in each part. A loving smile contains all art. The motes of starlight spar..
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darkness
dazzlement
eternal
eternity
god
hope
joy
light
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When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then the artist listens.
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listening
work
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Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do. I've never had a feeling in my life. As a matter of fact, I matter only with earth people.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things which are not seen are eternal.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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Nothing, no one, is too small to matter. What you do is going to make a difference.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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Truth is eternal. Knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.
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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.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that does not affect other people, no matter how loudly we say, "It's my own business."
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As Emmanuel, Cardinal Suhard says, "To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda, nor even in stirring people up, but in being a living mystery. It means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not exist." --
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You see, though we travel together, we travel alone.
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The truth is that I hate to think about other people reading my books," Miranda said. "It's like watching someone go through the box of private stuff that I keep under my bed."
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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Speaking of ways, pet, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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I think your mythology would call them fallen angels. War and hate are their business, and one of their chief weapons is un-Naming - making people not know who they are. If someone knows who he is, really knows, then he doesn't need to hate. That's why we still need Namers, because there are places throughout the universe like your planet Earth. When everyone is really and truly Named, then the Echthroi will be vanquished.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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And there's no getting around the fact that all life lives at the expense of another life.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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The journey homewards. Coming home. That's what it's all about. The journey to the coming of the Kingdom. That's probably the chief difference between the Christian and the secular artist--the purpose of the work, be it story or music or painting, is to further the coming of the kingdom, to make us aware of our status as children of God, and to turn our feet toward home.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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God promised to make you free. He never promised to make you independent.
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One of the most pusillanimous things we of the female sex have done throughout the centuries is to have allowed the male sex to assume that mankind is masculine. It is not. It takes both male and female to make the image of God. The proper understanding of mankind is that it is only a poor, broken thing if either male or female is excluded.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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We are suspicious of grace. We are afraid of the very lavishness of the gift.
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In your language you have a form of poetry called the sonnet...There are fourteen lines, I believe, all in iambic pentameter. That's a very strict rhythm or meter...And each line has to end with a rigid pattern. And if the poet does not do it exactly this way, it is not a sonnet...But within this strict form the poet has complete freedom to say whatever he wants...You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. What you sa..
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It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth.
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Hey Meg! Communication implies sound. Communion doesn't.' He sent her a brief image of walking silently through the woods, the two of them alone together., their feet almost noiseless on the rusty carpet of pine needles. They walked without speaking, without touching, and yet they were as close as it is possible for two human beings to be. They climbed up through the woods, coming out into the brilliant sunlight at the top of the hill. A fe..
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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There is in God, some say, a deep but dazzling darkness.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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That's a sure way to tell about somebody--the way they play, or don't play, make-believe.
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