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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.

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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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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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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I sometimes think men don't 'hear' very well, if I take your meaning to be 'understand what is going on in a person.' That's what makes them so restful. Women wear each other out with their everlasting touching of the nerve.
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instant intimacy was too often followed by disillusion.
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The value of solitude - one of its values - is, of course, that there is nothing to cushion against attacks from within, just as there is nothing to help balance at times of particular stress or depression.
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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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They are commiting murder who merely live.
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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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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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It is only when we can believe that we are creating the soul that life has any meaning, but when we can believe it - and I do and always have - then there is nothing we do that is without meaning and nothing that we suffer that does not hold the seed of creation in it.
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Absence becomes the greatest Presence.
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Gardening is an instrument of grace.
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I suppose one has to remember that 'life' is important too, though it's something I forget in some moods, everything except work seeming like an interruption or really non-life.
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One could go on revising a prose page forever whereas there is a point in a poem when one knows it is done forever.
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Sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through it, attentive to what it exposes or demands.
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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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I suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward
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The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.
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I’m only able to write poetry, for the most part, when I have a Muse, a woman who focuses the world for me.
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I tell the gods are still alive / And they are not consoling.
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