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Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light.
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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Light is snow sifted / To an abstraction.
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True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.
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Solitude is one thing and loneliness is another.
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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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The tragic thing about learning from experience is I fear that one can only learn from one's own experience. Other people's - other nations' - experiences simply do not help. They can be imaginatively learned from. But people do not act on other people's experiences.
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Now I become myself. It’s taken time, many years and places.
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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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I have never written a book that was not born out of a question I needed to answer for myself.
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Nobody stays special when they're old, Anna. That's what we have to learn.
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Life comes in clusters, clusters of solitude, then a cluster when there is hardly time to breathe.
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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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Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius.
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I can understand people simply fleeing the mountainous effort Christmas has become... but there are always a few saving graces and finally they make up for all the bother and distress.
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The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.
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For poetry exists to break through to below the level of reason where the angels and monsters that the amenities keep in the cellar may come out to dance, to rove and roar, growling and singing, to bring life back to the enclosed rooms where too often we are only 'living and partly living.
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It is sometimes the most fragile things that have the power to endure and become sources of strength.
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