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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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True gardeners cannot bear a glove Between the sure touch and the tender root.
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making order out of disorder any time, anywhere, can be regarded as a sacrament.
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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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The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.
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The gift turned inward, unable to be given, becomes a heavy burden, even sometimes a kind of poison. It is as though the flow of life were backed up.
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The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.
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Failure would only be if you had somewhere stopped growing. As far as I can see the whole duty of the artist is to keep on growing.
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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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... love is healing, even rootless love.
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This suspension of one's own reality, this being entirely alone in a strange city (at times I wondered if I had lost the power of speech) is an enriching state for a writer. Then the written word ... takes on an intensity of its own. Nothing gets exteriorized or dissipated all is concentrated within.
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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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Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?
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What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.
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Lunches are just not good. They take the heart out of the day and the spaciousness from the morning's work.
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Sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through it, attentive to what it exposes or demands.
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Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.
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Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd.
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For to be desperate is to discover strength. / We die of comfort and by conflict live.
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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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