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She became for me an island of light, fun, wisdom where I could run with my discoveries and torments and hopes at any time of day and find welcome.

May Sarton

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May Sarton
Age: 83 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 3
Died: 1995
Died: July 16
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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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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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In the novel or the journal you get the journey. In a poem you get the arrival.
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There the door is always open into the “holy” — growth, birth, death.
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Nobody stays special when they're old, Anna. That's what we have to learn.
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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 have never written a book that was not born out of a question I needed to answer for myself.
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It looks as if I were meant to be alone, and that any hope of happiness is not meant. Am I too old to acquire the knack for happiness?
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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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It is curious how any making of order makes one feel mentally ordered, ordered inside.
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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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Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels.
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life is always bringing unexpected gifts.
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Words are more powerful than perhaps anyone suspects, and once deeply engraved in a child's mind, they are not easily eradicated.
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I’m only able to write poetry, for the most part, when I have a Muse, a woman who focuses the world for me.
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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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