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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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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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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 inside all the weakness of old age, the spirit, God knows, is as mercurial as it ever was.
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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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[In old age] there is a childlike innocence, often, that has nothing to do with the childishness of senility. The moments become precious . . .
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I asked myself the question, 'What do you want of your life?' and I realized with a start of recognition and terror, 'Exactly what I have - but to be commensurate, to handle it all better.
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“How does one grow up?” I asked a friend the other day. There was a slight pause then she answered, “By thinking.”
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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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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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And one cold starry night / Whatever your belief / The phoenix will take flight / Over the seas of grief / To sing her thrilling song / To stars and waves and sky / For neither old nor young / The phoenix does not die.
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Wrinkles here and there seem unimportant compared to the Gestalt of the whole person I have become in this past year.
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A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.
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I can understand people simply fleeing the mountainous effort Christmas has become... but there are always a few saving graces and finally they make up for all the bother and distress.
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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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We only keep what we lose.
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The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.
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we are never done with thinking about our parents, I suppose, and come to know them better long after they are dead than we ever did when they were alive.
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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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How much hope, expectation, and sheer hard work goes into the smallest success! There is no being sure of anything except that whatever has been created will change in time.
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