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Rather Quotes by Madeleine L'Engle
- Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.
- If we commit ourselves to one person for life, this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather, it demands the courage…
- Like all great fantasists, he has taught me about life, life in eternity rather than chronology, life in that time in which we are real.
- what I must learn is to love with all of me, giving all of me, and yet remain whole in myself. Any other kind of…
- Rather than feeling lost and unimportant and meaningless, set against galaxies which go beyond the reach of the furthest telescopes, I feel that my life…
- What is self-image? Who started talking about one? I rather fancy it was Madison Avenue.
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