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Lunches are just not good. They take the heart out of the day and the spaciousness from the morning's work.
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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Solitude is one thing and loneliness is another.
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A holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward to reset oneself by an inner compass.
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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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It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.
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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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Without anxiety life would have very little savor.
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There is a wilder solitude in winter When every sense is pricked alive and keen.
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Words are my passion / And out of them and me / I would create beauty.
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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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Mountains define you. You cannot define / Them.
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Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?
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Love is our human miracle.
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The most valuable thing we can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of room, not try to be or do anything whatever.
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No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.
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Gardening is an instrument of grace.
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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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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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If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be? Half the world is feminine - why is there resentment at a female-oriented art? Nobody asks The Tale of Genji to be masculine! Women certainly learn a lot from books oriented toward a masculine world. Why is not the reverse also true? Or are men really so afraid of women's creativity?
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