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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.

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
Destruction
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Passion
Beauty
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Art
True
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Seeds

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