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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.

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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Without anxiety life would have very little savor.
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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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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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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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Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.
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True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.
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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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One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
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One could go on revising a prose page forever whereas there is a point in a poem when one knows it is done forever.
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I believe that children long for form just as grownups do, and that it releases rather than cramps creative energy.
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We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
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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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The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.
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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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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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“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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