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A holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward to reset oneself by an inner compass.

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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Where music thundered let the mind be still, Where the will triumphed let there be no will, What light revealed, now let the dark fulfill.
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In the country of pain we are each alone.
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Miracles cannot be explained, that is their miraculous nature.
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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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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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My own feeling is that the only possible reason for engaging in the hard labor of writing a novel, is that one is bothered by something one needs to understand, and can come to understand only through the characters in the imagined situation.
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For of course one is never safe when in love. Growth is demanding and may seem dangerous, for there is loss as well as gain in growth. But why go on living if one has ceased to grow? And what more demanding atmosphere for growth than love in any form, than any relationship which can call out and requires of us our most secret and deepest selves?
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We are all, whether we know it or not, in search of a way to enrich, to drink during the fizz, to inhale deeper our gifts, in a desperation for some little understanding before death.
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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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Absence becomes the greatest Presence.
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One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
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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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instant intimacy was too often followed by disillusion.
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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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For me the moral dilemma this past year has been how to make peace with the unacceptable.
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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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I have written every poem, every novel, for the same purpose-to find out what I think, to know where I stand.
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You can't plan for a seizure of feeling, and for this reason I put everything else aside when I'm inspired.
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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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