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About loving, I have little to learn from the young.

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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If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be? Half the world is feminine - why is there resentment at a female-oriented art? Nobody asks The Tale of Genji to be masculine! Women certainly learn a lot from books oriented toward a masculine world. Why is not the reverse also true? Or are men really so afraid of women's creativity?
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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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For me the moral dilemma this past year has been how to make peace with the unacceptable.
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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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Words are my passion / And out of them and me / I would create beauty.
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They are commiting murder who merely live.
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We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
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Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.
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The more our bodies fail us, the more naked and more demanding is the spirit, the more open and loving we can become if we are not afraid of what we are and of what we feel. I am not a phoenix yet, but here among the ashes, it may be that the pain is chiefly that of new wings trying to push through.
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In the country of pain we are each alone.
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