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Does one come to enjoy even the hardships that help make one the person one is? Or is it that the past becomes a legend to be remembered with laughter?
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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It is a waste of time to see people who have only a social surface to show. I will make every effort to find out the real person, but if I can't, then I am upset and cross. Time wasted is poison.
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Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels.
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How much hope, expectation, and sheer hard work goes into the smallest success! There is no being sure of anything except that whatever has been created will change in time.
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It is only when we can believe that we are creating the soul that life has any meaning, but when we can believe it - and I do and always have - then there is nothing we do that is without meaning and nothing that we suffer that does not hold the seed of creation in it.
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Mountains define you. You cannot define / Them.
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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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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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Human relations just are not fixed in their orbits like the planets -- they're more like galaxies, changing all the time, exploding into light for years, then dying away.
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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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You will always be here with me As long as I live, A towering figure of love.
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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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Though friendship is not quick to burn it is explosive stuff.
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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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Routine is not a prison, but the way into freedom from time.
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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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What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.
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The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.
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Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius.
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An old body when it is loved becomes a sacred treasure and sex itself must always, it seems to me, come to us as a sacrament and be so used or it is meaningless. The flesh is suffused by the spirit, and it is forgetting this in the act of love-making that creates cynicism and despair.
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We cannot afford not to fight for growth and understanding, even when it is painful, as it is bound to be.
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