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Absence becomes the greatest Presence.

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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Absence
Presence

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Read between the lines.Then meet me in the silence if you can.
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About loving, I have little to learn from the young.
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Now I become myself. It’s taken time, many years and places.
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Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.
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Joy, happiness ... we do not question. They are beyond question, maybe. A matter of being. But pain forces us to think, and to make connections ... to discover what has been happening to cause it. And, curiously enough, pain draws us to other human beings in a significant way, whereas joy or happiness to some extent, isolates.
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Inside my mother's death / I lay and could not breathe.
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Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light.
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Lunches are just not good. They take the heart out of the day and the spaciousness from the morning's work.
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It is curious how any making of order makes one feel mentally ordered, ordered inside.
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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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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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I feel like an inadequate machine, a machine that breaks down at crucial moments, grinds to a dreadful hault, 'won't go,' or, even worse, explodes in some innocent person's face.
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I am not a greedy person except about flowers and plants, and then I become fanatically greedy.
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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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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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