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I am not ready to die, / But I am learning to trust death / As I have trusted life.

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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Mountains define you. You cannot define / Them.
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We have to make myths of our lives, the point being that if we do, then every grief or inexplicable seizure by weather, woe, or work can-if we discipline ourselves and think hard enough-be turned to account, be made to yield further insight into what it is to be alive, to be a human being.
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What we have not has made us what we are. / ... / What we are not drives us to consummation.
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The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.
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It is always hard to hear the buried truth from another person.
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It takes a long time for words to become thought.
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One could go on revising a prose page forever whereas there is a point in a poem when one knows it is done forever.
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Though friendship is not quick to burn it is explosive stuff.
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What can I have that I still want?
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Routine is not a prison, but the way into freedom from time.
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We are all, whether we know it or not, in search of a way to enrich, to drink during the fizz, to inhale deeper our gifts, in a desperation for some little understanding before death.
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I suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward
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We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
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There the door is always open into the “holy” — growth, birth, death.
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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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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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What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.
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