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life is always bringing unexpected gifts.

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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Life

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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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It is sometimes the most fragile things that have the power to endure and become sources of strength.
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I am not a greedy person except about flowers and plants, and then I become fanatically greedy.
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Time unbounded is hard to handle.
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Miracles cannot be explained, that is their miraculous nature.
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Now I become myself. It’s taken time, many years and places.
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Solitude is one thing and loneliness is another.
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There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.
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Once more I realize that solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people (all naturally solitary people must feel this) precludes awareness of one's self, so after a while the self no longer knows that it exists.
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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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Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light.
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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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all great people are humble because great people have great work and are humbled by the largeness of their dreams.
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“How does one grow up?” I asked a friend the other day. There was a slight pause then she answered, “By thinking.”
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[In old age] there is a childlike innocence, often, that has nothing to do with the childishness of senility. The moments become precious . . .
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In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.
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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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Love is our human miracle.
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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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Though friendship is not quick to burn it is explosive stuff.
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