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we are never done with thinking about our parents, I suppose, and come to know them better long after they are dead than we ever did when they were alive.

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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Family life! The United Nations is child's play compared to the tugs and splits and need to understand and forgive in any family.
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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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You will always be here with me As long as I live, A towering figure of love.
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Poetry is a dangerous profession between conflict and resolution, between feeling and thought, between becoming and being, between the ultra-personal and the universal - and these balances are shifting all the 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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A holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward to reset oneself by an inner compass.
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For of course one is never safe when in love. Growth is demanding and may seem dangerous, for there is loss as well as gain in growth. But why go on living if one has ceased to grow? And what more demanding atmosphere for growth than love in any form, than any relationship which can call out and requires of us our most secret and deepest selves?
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For to be desperate is to discover strength. / We die of comfort and by conflict live.
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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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If I were to choose one single thing that that would restore Paris to the senses, it would be that strangely sweet, unhealthy smell of the Métro, so very unlike the dank cold or the stuffy heat of subways in New York.
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What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.
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