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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!
May Sarton
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May Sarton
Age: 83 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 3
Died: 1995
Died: July 16
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Lunches are just not good. They take the heart out of the day and the spaciousness from the morning's work.
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instant intimacy was too often followed by disillusion.
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I can tell you that solitude Is not all exaltation, inner space Where the soul breathes and work can be done. Solitude exposes the nerve, Raises up ghosts. The past, never at rest, flows through it.
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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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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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It takes a long time for words to become thought.
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... love is healing, even rootless love.
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O cruel cloudless space, And pale bare ground where the poor infant lies! Why do we feel restored As in a sacramental place? Here Mystery is artifice, And here a vision of such peace is stored, Healing flows from it through our eyes.
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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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...I feel more alive when I'm writing than I do at any other time--except when I'm making love. Two things when you forget time, when nothing exists except the moment--the moment of writing, the moment of love. That perfect concentration is bliss.
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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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May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant that is what matters.
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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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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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When addressed, a Gentleman Cat does not move a muscle. He looks as if he hasn't heard.
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One does not find oneself by pursuing one's self, but on the contrary by pursuing something else and learning through discipline or routine. . . who one is and wants to be.
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Without anxiety life would have very little savor.
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One could go on revising a prose page forever whereas there is a point in a poem when one knows it is done forever.
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