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Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels.

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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Fifteen

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Failure would only be if you had somewhere stopped growing. As far as I can see the whole duty of the artist is to keep on growing.
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Once more I realize that solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people (all naturally solitary people must feel this) precludes awareness of one's self, so after a while the self no longer knows that it exists.
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For inside all the weakness of old age, the spirit, God knows, is as mercurial as it ever was.
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Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.
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We have to make myths of our lives, the point being that if we do, then every grief or inexplicable seizure by weather, woe, or work can-if we discipline ourselves and think hard enough-be turned to account, be made to yield further insight into what it is to be alive, to be a human being.
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A holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward to reset oneself by an inner compass.
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I can understand people simply fleeing the mountainous effort Christmas has become... but there are always a few saving graces and finally they make up for all the bother and distress.
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Sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through it, attentive to what it exposes or demands.
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We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
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For of course one is never safe when in love. Growth is demanding and may seem dangerous, for there is loss as well as gain in growth. But why go on living if one has ceased to grow? And what more demanding atmosphere for growth than love in any form, than any relationship which can call out and requires of us our most secret and deepest selves?
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It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.
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The value of solitude - one of its values - is, of course, that there is nothing to cushion against attacks from within, just as there is nothing to help balance at times of particular stress or depression.
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I am not ready to die, / But I am learning to trust death / As I have trusted life.
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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.
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If I were to choose one single thing that that would restore Paris to the senses, it would be that strangely sweet, unhealthy smell of the Métro, so very unlike the dank cold or the stuffy heat of subways in New York.
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I have never written a book that was not born out of a question I needed to answer for myself.
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Read between the lines.Then meet me in the silence if you can.
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People who are always thinking of the feelings of others can be very destructive because they are hiding so much from themselves.
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In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.
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