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No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.
May Sarton
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May Sarton
Age: 83 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 3
Died: 1995
Died: July 16
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May Eleanor Sarton
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For me the moral dilemma this past year has been how to make peace with the unacceptable.
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Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels.
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The tragic thing about learning from experience is I fear that one can only learn from one's own experience. Other people's - other nations' - experiences simply do not help. They can be imaginatively learned from. But people do not act on other people's experiences.
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May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant that is what matters.
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It is always hard to hear the buried truth from another person.
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My own feeling is that the only possible reason for engaging in the hard labor of writing a novel, is that one is bothered by something one needs to understand, and can come to understand only through the characters in the imagined situation.
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Light is snow sifted / To an abstraction.
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How much hope, expectation, and sheer hard work goes into the smallest success! There is no being sure of anything except that whatever has been created will change in time.
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And one cold starry night / Whatever your belief / The phoenix will take flight / Over the seas of grief / To sing her thrilling song / To stars and waves and sky / For neither old nor young / The phoenix does not die.
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“How does one grow up?” I asked a friend the other day. There was a slight pause then she answered, “By thinking.”
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Solitude is one thing and loneliness is another.
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Time unbounded is hard to handle.
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Lunches are just not good. They take the heart out of the day and the spaciousness from the morning's work.
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Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light.
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Your poems will happen when no one is there.
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The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.
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It looks as if I were meant to be alone, and that any hope of happiness is not meant. Am I too old to acquire the knack for happiness?
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I am not a greedy person except about flowers and plants, and then I become fanatically greedy.
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I write poems about relationships, love relationships, and I'm not able to do that all the time. I could go two years without writing poems, and then write a dozen. Having a novel to work on, with the intricate puzzle of character and plot to work out, is satisfying for the time there is no poetry.
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