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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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For inside all the weakness of old age, the spirit, God knows, is as mercurial as it ever was.
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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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The tragic thing about learning from experience is I fear that one can only learn from one's own experience. Other people's - other nations' - experiences simply do not help. They can be imaginatively learned from. But people do not act on other people's experiences.
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Without anxiety life would have very little savor.
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I have never written a book that was not born out of a question I needed to answer for myself.
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