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Madeleine L'Engle
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our country in general assumes that the pursuit of happiness really means the pursuit of pleasure and that therefore pleasure is the greatest good. ✨ Madeleine L'Engle (2016). A Circle of Quiet, p.67, Open Road Media
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Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it. ✨ Madeleine L'Engle (2016). The Summer of the Great-Grandmother, p.90, Open Road Media
We tend to defend vigorously things that in our deepest hearts we are not quite certain about. If we are certain of something we know, it doesn't need defending.
I am not some kind of computer. Only machines have glib answers for everything. ✨ Madeleine L'Engle (2013). The Wrinkle in Time Quintet, p.299, Macmillan
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Sometimes when we aren't looking, the holiness comes breaking through like a rainbow.

our country in general assumes that the pursuit of happiness really means the pursuit of pleasure and that therefore pleasure is the greatest good. ✨ Madeleine L'Engle (2016). A Circle of Quiet, p.67, Open Road Media

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