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They are commiting murder who merely 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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Poet
Writer
May Eleanor Sarton
Murder
Merely
Live

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... love is healing, even rootless love.
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Mountains define you. You cannot define / Them.
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My own feeling is that the only possible reason for engaging in the hard labor of writing a novel, is that one is bothered by something one needs to understand, and can come to understand only through the characters in the imagined situation.
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Time unbounded is hard to handle.
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...I feel more alive when I'm writing than I do at any other time--except when I'm making love. Two things when you forget time, when nothing exists except the moment--the moment of writing, the moment of love. That perfect concentration is bliss.
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Failure would only be if you had somewhere stopped growing. As far as I can see the whole duty of the artist is to keep on growing.
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We cannot afford not to fight for growth and understanding, even when it is painful, as it is bound to be.
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A body without bones would be a limp impossible mess, so a day without steady routine would be disruptive and chaotic.
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Inside my mother's death / I lay and could not breathe.
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