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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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Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.
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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 only way through pain…is to absorb, probe, understand exactly what it is and what it means. To close the door on pain is to miss the chance for growth.
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Light is snow sifted / To an abstraction.
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Mountains define you. You cannot define / Them.
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I have never written a book that was not born out of a question I needed to answer for myself.
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Words are my passion / And out of them and me / I would create beauty.
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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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Poems like to have a destination for their flight. They are homing pigeons.
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There were moments ... when it seemed that all one could be asked was just to keep the ashtrays clean, the bed made, the wastebaskets emptied, as if one never got to the real things because of the constant exhausting battle to keep ordinary life from falling apart.
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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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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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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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