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The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.

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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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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In the country of pain we are each alone.
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Love opens the doors into everything, as far as I can see, including and perhaps most of all, the door into one's own secret, and often terrible and frightening, real self.
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There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.
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I asked myself the question, 'What do you want of your life?' and I realized with a start of recognition and terror, 'Exactly what I have - but to be commensurate, to handle it all better.
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One does not find oneself by pursuing one's self, but on the contrary by pursuing something else and learning through discipline or routine. . . who one is and wants to be.
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One thing is certain, and I have always known it - the joys of my life have nothing to do with age. They do not change. Flowers, the morning and evening light, music, poetry, silence, the goldfinches darting about
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The poet must be free to love or hate as the spirit moves him, free to change, free to be a chameleon, free to be an enfant terrible. He must above all never worry about this effect on other people.
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Words are my passion / And out of them and me / I would create beauty.
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It feels a long way up and down from zero.
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It is always hard to hear the buried truth from another person.
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I am realizing once and for all the difference as far as I am concerned of women and men and the necessity for both. With a man, however tender he is, one is feeding him - one is always and eternally understanding, mothering, supplying him with faith in himself (not in you).
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It is sometimes the most fragile things that have the power to endure and become sources of strength.
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Absence becomes the greatest Presence.
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Without anxiety life would have very little savor.
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Does one come to enjoy even the hardships that help make one the person one is? Or is it that the past becomes a legend to be remembered with laughter?
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It takes a long time for words to become thought.
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You can't plan for a seizure of feeling, and for this reason I put everything else aside when I'm inspired.
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Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.
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