A book, too, can be a star 'explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly.
Weitere Zitate von Madeleine L'Engle
Zum Autor"Life is not easy and comfortable, with nothing ever going wrong as long as you buy the right product. It's not true that if you have the right insurance everything is going to be fine. That's not what it's really like. Terrible things happen. And those are the things we learn from."
"Qui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks."
"An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers...To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy...If I try self consciously to become a person, I will never be one. The most real people, those who are able to forget their selfish selves, who have true compassion, are usually the most distinct individuals."
"In a world where pleasure rules, people tend to be undeveloped in every way. ' A House Like a Lotus."
"We live by revelation, as Christians, as artists, which means that 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."