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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
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No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.
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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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It is possible, I suppose, that we are returning to a Dark Age. What is frightening is that violence is not only represented by nations, but everywhere walks among us freely.
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I sometimes think men don't 'hear' very well, if I take your meaning to be 'understand what is going on in a person.' That's what makes them so restful. Women wear each other out with their everlasting touching of the nerve.
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This suspension of one's own reality, this being entirely alone in a strange city (at times I wondered if I had lost the power of speech) is an enriching state for a writer. Then the written word ... takes on an intensity of its own. Nothing gets exteriorized or dissipated all is concentrated within.
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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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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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Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd.
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The only way through pain…is to absorb, probe, understand exactly what it is and what it means. To close the door on pain is to miss the chance for growth.
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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 suppose one has to remember that 'life' is important too, though it's something I forget in some moods, everything except work seeming like an interruption or really non-life.
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Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.
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a poet never feels useful.
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Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.
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letters are so much easier than living. One can give one's best.
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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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We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
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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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Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light.
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Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius.
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