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Nobody stays special when they're old, Anna. That's what we have to learn.

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
Anna
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Nobody
Special
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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.
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The more our bodies fail us, the more naked and more demanding is the spirit, the more open and loving we can become if we are not afraid of what we are and of what we feel. I am not a phoenix yet, but here among the ashes, it may be that the pain is chiefly that of new wings trying to push through.
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Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.
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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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Words are my passion / And out of them and me / I would create beauty.
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Time unbounded is hard to handle.
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The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.
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Now I become myself. It’s taken time, many years and places.
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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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And one cold starry night / Whatever your belief / The phoenix will take flight / Over the seas of grief / To sing her thrilling song / To stars and waves and sky / For neither old nor young / The phoenix does not die.
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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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It is sometimes the most fragile things that have the power to endure and become sources of strength.
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How much hope, expectation, and sheer hard work goes into the smallest success! There is no being sure of anything except that whatever has been created will change in time.
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letters are so much easier than living. One can give one's best.
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In the country of pain we are each alone.
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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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Miracles cannot be explained, that is their miraculous nature.
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all great people are humble because great people have great work and are humbled by the largeness of their dreams.
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One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
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Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.
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