May Sarton - At Seventy (1984)

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A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.

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We are never done with thinking about our parents, I suppose, and come to know them better long after they are dead than we ever did when they were alive.

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In the middle of the night, things well up from the past that are not always cause for rejoicing — the unsolved, the painful encounters, the mistakes, the reasons for shame or woe. But all, good or bad, give me food for thought, food to grow on.

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Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?

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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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I suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward.

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A holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward, to reset oneself by an inner compass.

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The hardest thing we are asked to do in this world is to remain aware of suffering, suffering about which we can do nothing.

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Once more I realize that solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people (all naturally solitary people must feel this) precludes awareness of one's self, so after a while the self no longer knows that it exists.

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Gardening is a madness, a folly that does not go away with age. Quite the contrary.

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