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You can't plan for a seizure of feeling, and for this reason I put everything else aside when I'm inspired.
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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People who cannot feel punish those who do.
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Without anxiety life would have very little savor.
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Absence becomes the greatest Presence.
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all great people are humble because great people have great work and are humbled by the largeness of their dreams.
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I feel like an inadequate machine, a machine that breaks down at crucial moments, grinds to a dreadful hault, 'won't go,' or, even worse, explodes in some innocent person's face.
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There was such a thing as women's work and it consisted chiefly, Hilary sometimes thought, in being able to stand constant interruption and keep your temper. . . .
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Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.
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Words are more powerful than perhaps anyone suspects, and once deeply engraved in a child's mind, they are not easily eradicated.
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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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The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes. Under all the superficial praise of the creative is the desire to kill. It is the old war between the mystic and the nonmystic, a war to the death.
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Now I become myself. It’s taken time, many years and places.
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I tell the gods are still alive / And they are not consoling.
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We have to believe that every person counts, counts as a creative force that can move mountains.
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It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.
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It is sometimes the most fragile things that have the power to endure and become sources of strength.
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