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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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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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In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.
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Routine is not a prison, but the way into freedom from time.
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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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Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light.
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I am not a greedy person except about flowers and plants, and then I become fanatically greedy.
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The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.
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How much hope, expectation, and sheer hard work goes into the smallest success! There is no being sure of anything except that whatever has been created will change in time.
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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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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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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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