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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.

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
World
Fame
Paid
Blood
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Energy
Nothing
Vast
Time
Debt

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Where music thundered let the mind be still, Where the will triumphed let there be no will, What light revealed, now let the dark fulfill.
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I tell the gods are still alive / And they are not consoling.
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