I have never lived before...Until this summer, I did not know what it …

Madeleine L'Engle
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I have never lived before...Until this summer, I did not know what it was to be alive. ✨ Twitter post from Jun 11, 2013
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Schooling, instead of encouraging the asking of questions, too often discourages it. ✨ Madeleine L'Engle (2016). Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art, p.113, Convergent Books
Qui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks. ✨ Madeleine L'Engle (2012). A Wrinkle in Time: 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition, p.61, Macmillan
We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love. ✨ Madeleine L'Engle (2016). Th … ▶
Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.
To grow up is to find the small part you are playing in the extraordinary drama written by somebody else. ✨ Madeleine L'Engle (2009). The Ordering of Love: The New & Collected Poems of Madeleine L'En … ▶

I have never lived before...Until this summer, I did not know what it was to be alive. ✨ Twitter post from Jun 11, 2013

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