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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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May Eleanor Sarton
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Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.
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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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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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Joy, happiness ... we do not question. They are beyond question, maybe. A matter of being. But pain forces us to think, and to make connections ... to discover what has been happening to cause it. And, curiously enough, pain draws us to other human beings in a significant way, whereas joy or happiness to some extent, isolates.
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For to be desperate is to discover strength. / We die of comfort and by conflict live.
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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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Gardening is an instrument of grace.
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People who cannot feel punish those who do.
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O cruel cloudless space, And pale bare ground where the poor infant lies! Why do we feel restored As in a sacramental place? Here Mystery is artifice, And here a vision of such peace is stored, Healing flows from it through our eyes.
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A body without bones would be a limp impossible mess, so a day without steady routine would be disruptive and chaotic.
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