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Human relations just are not fixed in their orbits like the planets -- they're more like galaxies, changing all the time, exploding into light for years, then dying away.

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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I sometimes think men don't 'hear' very well, if I take your meaning to be 'understand what is going on in a person.' That's what makes them so restful. Women wear each other out with their everlasting touching of the nerve.
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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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I feel happy to be keeping a journal again. I've missed it, missed naming things as they appear, missed the half hour when I push all duties aside and savor the experience of being alive in this beautiful place.
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One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
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Light is snow sifted / To an abstraction.
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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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Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.
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About loving, I have little to learn from the young.
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each new poem is partly propelled by the formal energies of all the poems that have preceded it in the history of literature.
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One thing is certain, and I have always known it - the joys of my life have nothing to do with age. They do not change. Flowers, the morning and evening light, music, poetry, silence, the goldfinches darting about
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For me the moral dilemma this past year has been how to make peace with the unacceptable.
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I suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward
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life is always bringing unexpected gifts.
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I feel like an inadequate machine, a machine that breaks down at crucial moments, grinds to a dreadful hault, 'won't go,' or, even worse, explodes in some innocent person's face.
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letters are so much easier than living. One can give one's best.
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