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What we have not has made us what we are. / ... / What we are not drives us to consummation.

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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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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... love is healing, even rootless love.
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Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.
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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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For me the moral dilemma this past year has been how to make peace with the unacceptable.
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I can tell you that solitude Is not all exaltation, inner space Where the soul breathes and work can be done. Solitude exposes the nerve, Raises up ghosts. The past, never at rest, flows through it.
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The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.
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It is clear that we do not exactly choose our poems our poems choose us.
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Life comes in clusters, clusters of solitude, then a cluster when there is hardly time to breathe.
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I believe that children long for form just as grownups do, and that it releases rather than cramps creative energy.
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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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Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light.
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I feel happy to be keeping a journal again. I've missed it, missed naming things as they appear, missed the half hour when I push all duties aside and savor the experience of being alive in this beautiful place.
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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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It is a waste of time to see people who have only a social surface to show. I will make every effort to find out the real person, but if I can't, then I am upset and cross. Time wasted is poison.
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I suppose one has to remember that 'life' is important too, though it's something I forget in some moods, everything except work seeming like an interruption or really non-life.
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It feels a long way up and down from zero.
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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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Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd.
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life is always bringing unexpected gifts.
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