“Qui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks.”
Madeleine L'Engle libro A Wrinkle in Time
Origine: A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L'Engle è stata una scrittrice statunitense.
È conosciuta per i suoi libri per bambini, in particolare per Nelle pieghe del tempo e per i suoi sequel : A Wind in the Door , A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many Waters e An Acceptable Time. Le sue opere riflettono la sua fede cristiana e il suo forte interesse per la scienza moderna: il tesseratto, per esempio, è trattato in Nelle pieghe del tempo, il DNA mitocondriale in A Wind in the Door, la rigenerazione degli organi in Arm of the Starfish, e così via. Wikipedia
“Qui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks.”
Madeleine L'Engle libro A Wrinkle in Time
Origine: A Wrinkle in Time
“A good laugh heals a lot of hurts.”
Madeleine L'Engle A Ring of Endless Light
Origine: A Ring of Endless Light
“Experiment is the mother of knowledge.”
Origine: A Wrinkle in Time: With Related Readings
“Maybe that's the best part of going away for a vacation-coming home again.”
Madeleine L'Engle libro Meet the Austins
Origine: Meet the Austins
“Euripedes. Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.”
Madeleine L'Engle libro A Wrinkle in Time
Origine: A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L'Engle libro A Wrinkle in Time
Origine: A Wrinkle in Time
“Stories are like children. They grow in their own way.”
Madeleine L'Engle A Swiftly Tilting Planet
Origine: A Swiftly Tilting Planet
Origine: Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage
Madeleine L'Engle libro A Wrinkle in Time
Origine: A Wrinkle in Time
“It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter.”
Madeleine L'Engle A Ring of Endless Light
Origine: A Ring of Endless Light
Origine: A Wrinkle in Time: With Related Readings
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The Crosswicks Journal, A Circle of Quiet (1972)
Contesto: Here we are living in a world of "identity crises," and most of us have no idea what an identity is.
Half the problem is that an identity is something which must be understood intuitively, rather than in terms of provable fact. An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy.
“Have you ever tried to get to your feet with a sprained dignity?”
Madeleine L'Engle libro A Wrinkle in Time
Origine: A Wrinkle in Time
“It was a dark and stormy night.”
Madeleine L'Engle libro A Wrinkle in Time
Origine: A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L'Engle A Swiftly Tilting Planet
Origine: A Swiftly Tilting Planet
“Love. That was what she had that IT did not have.”
Madeleine L'Engle libro A Wrinkle in Time
Origine: A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L'Engle libro A Wrinkle in Time
Origine: A Wrinkle in Time
Origine: Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art