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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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May Eleanor Sarton
Fun
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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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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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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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The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.
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So this was fame at last! Nothing but a vast debt to be paid to the world in energy, blood, and time.
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...I feel more alive when I'm writing than I do at any other time--except when I'm making love. Two things when you forget time, when nothing exists except the moment--the moment of writing, the moment of love. That perfect concentration is bliss.
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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 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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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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When one's not writing poems - and I'm not at the moment - you wonder how you ever did it. It's like another country you can't reach.
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Nobody stays special when they're old, Anna. That's what we have to learn.
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I sometimes imagine that as one grows older one comes to live a role which as a young person one merely 'played.
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It is only when we can believe that we are creating the soul that life has any meaning, but when we can believe it - and I do and always have - then there is nothing we do that is without meaning and nothing that we suffer that does not hold the seed of creation in it.
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A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.
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Inside my mother's death / I lay and could not breathe.
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Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?
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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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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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Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.
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You will always be here with me As long as I live, A towering figure of love.
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