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Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius.

May Sarton

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May Sarton
Age: 83 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 3
Died: 1995
Died: July 16
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... love is healing, even rootless love.
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Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.
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I tell the gods are still alive / And they are not consoling.
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Nobody stays special when they're old, Anna. That's what we have to learn.
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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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Without anxiety life would have very little savor.
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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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An old body when it is loved becomes a sacred treasure and sex itself must always, it seems to me, come to us as a sacrament and be so used or it is meaningless. The flesh is suffused by the spirit, and it is forgetting this in the act of love-making that creates cynicism and despair.
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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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Miracles cannot be explained, that is their miraculous nature.
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