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Time unbounded is hard to handle.

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
Unbounded
Handle
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Time

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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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... love is healing, even rootless love.
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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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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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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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For me the moral dilemma this past year has been how to make peace with the unacceptable.
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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.
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Words are my passion / And out of them and me / I would create beauty.
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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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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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In the country of pain we are each alone.
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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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True gardeners cannot bear a glove Between the sure touch and the tender root.
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The only way through pain…is to absorb, probe, understand exactly what it is and what it means. To close the door on pain is to miss the chance for growth.
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Routine is not a prison, but the way into freedom from time.
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Solitude is one thing and loneliness is another.
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I have written every poem, every novel, for the same purpose-to find out what I think, to know where I stand.
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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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Without anxiety life would have very little savor.
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