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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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In the novel or the journal you get the journey. In a poem you get the arrival.
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One thing is certain, and I have always known it - the joys of my life have nothing to do with age. They do not change. Flowers, the morning and evening light, music, poetry, silence, the goldfinches darting about
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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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For me the moral dilemma this past year has been how to make peace with the unacceptable.
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For of course one is never safe when in love. Growth is demanding and may seem dangerous, for there is loss as well as gain in growth. But why go on living if one has ceased to grow? And what more demanding atmosphere for growth than love in any form, than any relationship which can call out and requires of us our most secret and deepest selves?
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The body is a universe in itself and must be held as sacred as anything in creation....It is dangerous to forget the body as sacramental.
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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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Family life! The United Nations is child's play compared to the tugs and splits and need to understand and forgive in any family.
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It is always hard to hear the buried truth from another person.
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He [the cat] wound himself around her legs, purring the purr of ardent desire like a kettle coming to a boil and then bubbling very fast.
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I asked myself the question, 'What do you want of your life?' and I realized with a start of recognition and terror, 'Exactly what I have - but to be commensurate, to handle it all better.
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People who are always thinking of the feelings of others can be very destructive because they are hiding so much from themselves.
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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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People who cannot feel punish those who do.
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What we have not has made us what we are. / ... / What we are not drives us to consummation.
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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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She became for me an island of light, fun, wisdom where I could run with my discoveries and torments and hopes at any time of day and find welcome.
May Sarton
Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.
May Sarton
making order out of disorder any time, anywhere, can be regarded as a sacrament.
May Sarton
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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