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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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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
Cole Porter
May Sarton
Born:
May 3, 1912
Died:
July 16, 1995
(aged 83)
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