May Sarton
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"May Sarton" is the pen name of "Eleanore Marie Sarton", an United States/American poet, novelist and memoirist.

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Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

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In the country of pain we are each alone.

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A house that does not have one worn, comfy chair in it is soulless. -May Sarton
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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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There is only one real deprivation, I decided this morning, and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.

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Though friendship is not quick to burn,It is explosive stuff. -May Sarton
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Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

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The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.

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We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment. -May Sarton
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Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!

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