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Now I become myself. It’s taken time, many years and places.

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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I tell the gods are still alive / And they are not consoling.
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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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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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We have to believe that every person counts, counts as a creative force that can move mountains.
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If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be? Half the world is feminine - why is there resentment at a female-oriented art? Nobody asks The Tale of Genji to be masculine! Women certainly learn a lot from books oriented toward a masculine world. Why is not the reverse also true? Or are men really so afraid of women's creativity?
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I feel like an inadequate machine, a machine that breaks down at crucial moments, grinds to a dreadful hault, 'won't go,' or, even worse, explodes in some innocent person's face.
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True gardeners cannot bear a glove Between the sure touch and the tender root.
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We cannot afford not to fight for growth and understanding, even when it is painful, as it is bound to be.
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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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It takes a long time for words to become thought.
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... love is healing, even rootless love.
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Love is our human miracle.
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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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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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Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light.
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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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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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There were moments ... when it seemed that all one could be asked was just to keep the ashtrays clean, the bed made, the wastebaskets emptied, as if one never got to the real things because of the constant exhausting battle to keep ordinary life from falling apart.
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I am realizing once and for all the difference as far as I am concerned of women and men and the necessity for both. With a man, however tender he is, one is feeding him - one is always and eternally understanding, mothering, supplying him with faith in himself (not in you).
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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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