“For the things that are seen are temporal, but things that are unseen are eternal.”
Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer
“We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things that are not seen are eternal.”
— Madeleine L'Engle, book A Wrinkle in Time
Variant: We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things which are not seen are eternal.
Source: A Wrinkle in Time
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