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For to be desperate is to discover strength. / We die of comfort and by conflict live.

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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Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd.
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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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For me the moral dilemma this past year has been how to make peace with the unacceptable.
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Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.
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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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I tell the gods are still alive / And they are not consoling.
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I have written every poem, every novel, for the same purpose-to find out what I think, to know where I stand.
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I am not ready to die, / But I am learning to trust death / As I have trusted life.
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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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It is sometimes the most fragile things that have the power to endure and become sources of strength.
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When I am alone the flowers are really seen I can pay attention to them. They are felt as presences. Without them I would die...they change before my eyes. They live and die in a few days they keep me closely in touch with the process, with growth, and also with dying. I am floated on their moments.
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In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.
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The only way through pain…is to absorb, probe, understand exactly what it is and what it means. To close the door on pain is to miss the chance for growth.
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