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We have to believe that every person counts, counts as a creative force that can move mountains.

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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making order out of disorder any time, anywhere, can be regarded as a sacrament.
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Am I too old, perhaps, ever to take in another's life to share with mine on a permanent basis? If so, I must make do with what I have... and what I have is a great richness of friends and a positively ardent love of nature. Not nothing!
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True gardeners cannot bear a glove Between the sure touch and the tender root.
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Read between the lines.Then meet me in the silence if you can.
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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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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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We only keep what we lose.
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My own feeling is that the only possible reason for engaging in the hard labor of writing a novel, is that one is bothered by something one needs to understand, and can come to understand only through the characters in the imagined situation.
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Where music thundered let the mind be still, Where the will triumphed let there be no will, What light revealed, now let the dark fulfill.
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A holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward to reset oneself by an inner compass.
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Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.
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True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.
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