May Sarton Short Quotes

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At any moment solitude may put on the face of loneliness.

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When it comes to the important things one is always alone.

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Unless the gentle inherit the earth,
There will be no earth.

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Do we always make our freedom out of someone else's bondage?

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The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.

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Now I become myself. It's taken time, many years and places.

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Old age is a great trial, John. One has to be so damned good!

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Read between the lines.Then meet me in the silence if you can.

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Have the courage to write whatever your dream is for yourself.

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Miracles cannot be explained, that is their miraculous nature.

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Beaming like a lesser god,
He bounced upon the earth he trod.

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Though friendship is not quick to burn,
It is explosive stuff.

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

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In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.

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Death does frame a person and somehow it is the good that stays.

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Letters are so much easier than living. One can give one's best.

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I tell you the gods are still alive
And they are not consoling.

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I love giving flowers. It is so deliciously unlasting and romantic.

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A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.

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Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

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Words are my passion
And out of them and me
I would create beauty.

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We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.

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Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.

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What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.

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One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.

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