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Though friendship is not quick to burn it is explosive stuff.

May Sarton

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May Sarton
Age: 83 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 3
Died: 1995
Died: July 16
Diarist
Poet
Writer
May Eleanor Sarton
Friends
Stuff
Explosive
Explosives
Burn
Quick
Friendship
Though

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The more our bodies fail us, the more naked and more demanding is the spirit, the more open and loving we can become if we are not afraid of what we are and of what we feel. I am not a phoenix yet, but here among the ashes, it may be that the pain is chiefly that of new wings trying to push through.
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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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Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself.
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instant intimacy was too often followed by disillusion.
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Absence becomes the greatest Presence.
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I sometimes imagine that as one grows older one comes to live a role which as a young person one merely 'played.
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One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
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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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Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?
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