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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."

Madeleine L'Engle

Art, Believe, Here I Am

Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.18, Convergent Books

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Maybe the theatre isn't any place for a reasonable human being after all. It keeps your emotions in such a constant state of upheaval. It's really terribly wearing. I wonder if I could stand it, one emotional upset after the other just going on and on for the rest of my life.

Madeleine L'Engle

Emotional, Upset, Theatre

Madeleine L'Engle (2008). “The Joys of Love”, p.171, Macmillan

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There is little character or loveliness in the face of someone who has shunned risk, avoided suffering and rejected life

Madeleine L'Engle

Character, Risk, Suffering

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We do not know and cannot tell when the spirit is with us. Great talent or small, it makes no difference. We are caught within our own skins, our own sensibilities; we never know if our technique has been adequate to the vision.

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Artist, Differences, Vision

Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.195, Open Road Media

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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.

Madeleine L'Engle

Hate, Book, Reading

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It is all, as usual, paradox. I have to use what intellect I have in order to write books, but I write the kind of books I do in order that I may try to set down glimpses of things that are on the other side of the intellect. We do not go around and discard the intellect, but we must go through and beyond it.

Madeleine L'Engle

Book, Writing, Order

Madeleine L'Engle (2017). “The Crosswicks Journals: A Circle of Quiet, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother, The Irrational Season, and Two-Part Invention”, p.32, Open Road Media

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When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.

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Art, Angel, Symphony

Madeleine L'Engle (2017). “A Severed Wasp: A Novel”, p.112, Open Road Media

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Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.

Madeleine L'Engle

Inspirational, Life, Creativity

1982 A Severed Wasp.

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If I didn't get fond I could be happy all the time.

Madeleine L'Engle

Ifs

Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.58, Macmillan

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Now I am setting out into the unknown. It will take me a long while to work through the grief. There are no shortcuts; it has to be gone through.

Madeleine L'Engle

Grief, Emotional, Long

Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage”, p.143, Open Road Media

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It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.

Madeleine L'Engle

Life, Important, Energy

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Hate hurts the hater more'n the hated.

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Hater, Hurt, Hate Me

Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.396, Macmillan

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Be aware that rigidity imprisons.

Madeleine L'Engle

Rigidity

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Death is contagious; it is contracted the moment we are conceived.

Madeleine L'Engle

Moments, Contagious

Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.73, Open Road Media

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Love is the one surprise.

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Love Is, Surprise

Madeleine L'Engle (2009). “The Ordering of Love: The New & Collected Poems of Madeleine L'Engle”, p.206, WaterBrook

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Anything that's natural can't be sinful-it may be inconvenient, but it's not sinful.

Madeleine L'Engle

May, Sin, Natural

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To grow up is to accept vulnerability. To be alive is to be vulnerable.

Madeleine L'Engle

Growing Up, Maturity, Alive

Twitter post from Dec 03, 2010

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you've got to learn to walk through a pigpen and not get dirty.

Madeleine L'Engle

Dirty, Walks

Madeleine L'Engle (2008). “The Joys of Love”, p.179, Macmillan

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To refuse to respond is in itself a response.

Madeleine L'Engle

Silence, Response, Refuse

Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.61, Open Road Media

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There's nothing more physically exhausting than a sense of failure.

Madeleine L'Engle

Failure, Exhausting

Twitter post from Mar 19, 2011

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We human beings grow through our failures, not our virtues.

Madeleine L'Engle

Virtue, Grows, Humans

Twitter post from Dec 13, 2011

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It was not an end, it was a beginging

Madeleine L'Engle

Ends

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And I can't say it now. I can't say what I want to say. I hold you-- I-- I clutch you, because I love you so desperately, and time is so short, we have such a little time in which to live and be young, even at best, and I put my arms around you and hold you because I want to love you while I can and I want to know I'm loving you, only it doesn't mean anything because you aren't afraid. You aren't frightened so that you want to clutch it all while you can.

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Love You, Mean, Loving You

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An artist is someone who cannot rest, who can never rest as long as there is one suffering creature in the world.

Madeleine L'Engle

Artist, Long, Suffering

Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.119, Convergent Books

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Inspiration more often comes during the work than before it, because the largest part of the job of an artist is to listen to the work.

Madeleine L'Engle

Inspirational, Jobs, Inspiration

Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.123, Convergent Books

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Born: November 29, 1918
Died: September 6, 2007
Occupation: Writer
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