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The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.

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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Now I become myself. It’s taken time, many years and places.
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A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.
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Human relations just are not fixed in their orbits like the planets -- they're more like galaxies, changing all the time, exploding into light for years, then dying away.
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I sometimes imagine that as one grows older one comes to live a role which as a young person one merely 'played.
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At some point I believe one has to stop holding back for fear of alienating some imaginary reader or real relative or friend, and come out with personal truth.
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we are never done with thinking about our parents, I suppose, and come to know them better long after they are dead than we ever did when they were alive.
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Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.
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An old body when it is loved becomes a sacred treasure and sex itself must always, it seems to me, come to us as a sacrament and be so used or it is meaningless. The flesh is suffused by the spirit, and it is forgetting this in the act of love-making that creates cynicism and despair.
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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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The ambience here is order and beauty. That is what frightens me when I am first alone again. I feel inadequate. I have made an open place, a place for meditation. What if I cannot find myself inside it?
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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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In the country of pain we are each alone.
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When I am alone the flowers are really seen I can pay attention to them. They are felt as presences. Without them I would die...they change before my eyes. They live and die in a few days they keep me closely in touch with the process, with growth, and also with dying. I am floated on their moments.
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Nobody stays special when they're old, Anna. That's what we have to learn.
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The gift turned inward, unable to be given, becomes a heavy burden, even sometimes a kind of poison. It is as though the flow of life were backed up.
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Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.
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We cannot afford not to fight for growth and understanding, even when it is painful, as it is bound to be.
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Read between the lines.Then meet me in the silence if you can.
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