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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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Routine is not a prison, but the way into freedom from time.
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If I were to choose one single thing that that would restore Paris to the senses, it would be that strangely sweet, unhealthy smell of the Métro, so very unlike the dank cold or the stuffy heat of subways in New York.
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For to be desperate is to discover strength. / We die of comfort and by conflict live.
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The gift turned inward, unable to be given, becomes a heavy burden, even sometimes a kind of poison. It is as though the flow of life were backed up.
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Wrinkles here and there seem unimportant compared to the Gestalt of the whole person I have become in this past year.
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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.
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There were moments ... when it seemed that all one could be asked was just to keep the ashtrays clean, the bed made, the wastebaskets emptied, as if one never got to the real things because of the constant exhausting battle to keep ordinary life from falling apart.
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“How does one grow up?” I asked a friend the other day. There was a slight pause then she answered, “By thinking.”
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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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In the country of pain we are each alone.
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I am realizing once and for all the difference as far as I am concerned of women and men and the necessity for both. With a man, however tender he is, one is feeding him - one is always and eternally understanding, mothering, supplying him with faith in himself (not in you).
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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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Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels.
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It is possible, I suppose, that we are returning to a Dark Age. What is frightening is that violence is not only represented by nations, but everywhere walks among us freely.
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Inside my mother's death / I lay and could not breathe.
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The value of solitude - one of its values - is, of course, that there is nothing to cushion against attacks from within, just as there is nothing to help balance at times of particular stress or depression.
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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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I’m only able to write poetry, for the most part, when I have a Muse, a woman who focuses the world for me.
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instant intimacy was too often followed by disillusion.
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[In old age] there is a childlike innocence, often, that has nothing to do with the childishness of senility. The moments become precious . . .
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