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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
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Time

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Without anxiety life would have very little savor.
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For to be desperate is to discover strength. / We die of comfort and by conflict live.
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Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.
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Read between the lines.Then meet me in the silence if you can.
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