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We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.

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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I am realizing once and for all the difference as far as I am concerned of women and men and the necessity for both. With a man, however tender he is, one is feeding him - one is always and eternally understanding, mothering, supplying him with faith in himself (not in you).
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Solitude is one thing and loneliness is another.
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Failure would only be if you had somewhere stopped growing. As far as I can see the whole duty of the artist is to keep on growing.
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We have to make myths of our lives, the point being that if we do, then every grief or inexplicable seizure by weather, woe, or work can-if we discipline ourselves and think hard enough-be turned to account, be made to yield further insight into what it is to be alive, to be a human being.
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A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.
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Without anxiety life would have very little savor.
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A body without bones would be a limp impossible mess, so a day without steady routine would be disruptive and chaotic.
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There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.
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