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The ambience here is order and beauty. That is what frightens me when I am first alone again. I feel inadequate. I have made an open place, a place for meditation. What if I cannot find myself inside it?

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
First
Open
Feel
Alone
Feels
Beauty
Made
Order
Ambience
Place
Frightens
Cannot
Inadequate
Find
Meditation
Firsts
Inside

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