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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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I feel happy to be keeping a journal again. I've missed it, missed naming things as they appear, missed the half hour when I push all duties aside and savor the experience of being alive in this beautiful place.
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Am I too old, perhaps, ever to take in another's life to share with mine on a permanent basis? If so, I must make do with what I have... and what I have is a great richness of friends and a positively ardent love of nature. Not nothing!
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Inside my mother's death / I lay and could not breathe.
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They are commiting murder who merely live.
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Why should it happen that among the great many women whom I see and am fond of, suddenly somebody I meet for half an hour opens the door into poetry?
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Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself.
May Sarton
Where music thundered let the mind be still, Where the will triumphed let there be no will, What light revealed, now let the dark fulfill.
May Sarton
Wrinkles here and there seem unimportant compared to the Gestalt of the whole person I have become in this past year.
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Life comes in clusters, clusters of solitude, then a cluster when there is hardly time to breathe.
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You will always be here with me As long as I live, A towering figure of love.
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Routine is not a prison, but the way into freedom from time.
May Sarton
The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.
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I have written every poem, every novel, for the same purpose-to find out what I think, to know where I stand.
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The most valuable thing we can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of room, not try to be or do anything whatever.
May Sarton
For me the moral dilemma this past year has been how to make peace with the unacceptable.
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I suppose one has to remember that 'life' is important too, though it's something I forget in some moods, everything except work seeming like an interruption or really non-life.
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It is a waste of time to see people who have only a social surface to show. I will make every effort to find out the real person, but if I can't, then I am upset and cross. Time wasted is poison.
May Sarton
Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light.
May Sarton
I am not a greedy person except about flowers and plants, and then I become fanatically greedy.
May Sarton
There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.
May Sarton
