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When addressed, a Gentleman Cat does not move a muscle. He looks as if he hasn't heard.

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 feel happy to be keeping a journal again. I've missed it, missed naming things as they appear, missed the half hour when I push all duties aside and savor the experience of being alive in this beautiful place.
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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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The body is a universe in itself and must be held as sacred as anything in creation....It is dangerous to forget the body as sacramental.
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It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.
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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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Nobody stays special when they're old, Anna. That's what we have to learn.
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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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Gardening is an instrument of grace.
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Miracles cannot be explained, that is their miraculous nature.
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Time unbounded is hard to handle.
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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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Words are my passion / And out of them and me / I would create beauty.
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It is possible, I suppose, that we are returning to a Dark Age. What is frightening is that violence is not only represented by nations, but everywhere walks among us freely.
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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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One thing is certain, and I have always known it - the joys of my life have nothing to do with age. They do not change. Flowers, the morning and evening light, music, poetry, silence, the goldfinches darting about
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She became for me an island of light, fun, wisdom where I could run with my discoveries and torments and hopes at any time of day and find welcome.
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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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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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I suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward
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Family life! The United Nations is child's play compared to the tugs and splits and need to understand and forgive in any family.
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