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It is curious how any making of order makes one feel mentally ordered, ordered inside.
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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Words are my passion / And out of them and me / I would create beauty.
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I suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward
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Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?
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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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There the door is always open into the “holy” — growth, birth, death.
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It is possible, I suppose, that we are returning to a Dark Age. What is frightening is that violence is not only represented by nations, but everywhere walks among us freely.
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When addressed, a Gentleman Cat does not move a muscle. He looks as if he hasn't heard.
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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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Absence becomes the greatest Presence.
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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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