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It is always hard to hear the buried truth from another person.

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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When I am alone the flowers are really seen I can pay attention to them. They are felt as presences. Without them I would die...they change before my eyes. They live and die in a few days they keep me closely in touch with the process, with growth, and also with dying. I am floated on their moments.
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I have written every poem, every novel, for the same purpose-to find out what I think, to know where I stand.
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... love is healing, even rootless love.
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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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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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The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.
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Words are my passion / And out of them and me / I would create beauty.
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letters are so much easier than living. One can give one's best.
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I am not ready to die, / But I am learning to trust death / As I have trusted life.
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Absence becomes the greatest Presence.
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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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Where music thundered let the mind be still, Where the will triumphed let there be no will, What light revealed, now let the dark fulfill.
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For to be desperate is to discover strength. / We die of comfort and by conflict live.
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