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all great people are humble because great people have great work and are humbled by the largeness of their dreams.
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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It is only when we can believe that we are creating the soul that life has any meaning, but when we can believe it - and I do and always have - then there is nothing we do that is without meaning and nothing that we suffer that does not hold the seed of creation in it.
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For inside all the weakness of old age, the spirit, God knows, is as mercurial as it ever was.
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True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.
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More than any other beauty (though it is true of all beauty except in art) passion seems to me to have the seeds of its own destruction in it.
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Poems like to have a destination for their flight. They are homing pigeons.
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At some point I believe one has to stop holding back for fear of alienating some imaginary reader or real relative or friend, and come out with personal truth.
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Time unbounded is hard to handle.
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In the garden the door is always open into the holy - growth, birth, death. Every flower holds the whole mystery in its short cycle, and in the garden we are never far away from death, the fertilizing, good, creative death.
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In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.
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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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The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.
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For to be desperate is to discover strength. / We die of comfort and by conflict live.
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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 am realizing once and for all the difference as far as I am concerned of women and men and the necessity for both. With a man, however tender he is, one is feeding him - one is always and eternally understanding, mothering, supplying him with faith in himself (not in you).
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