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Bounds Quote by May Sarton

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“We cannot afford not to fight for growth and understanding, even when it is painful, as it is bound to be.”

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“I felt pain like an assault, The old pain again When the world thrusts itself inside, When we have to take in the outside,…

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Most people have to talk so they won't hear.

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People who cannot feel punish those who do.

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This suspension of one's own reality, this being entirely alone in a strange city (at times I wondered if I had lost the power…

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

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Real joy is becoming exceedingly rare among artists of any kind. And I have an idea that those who can and do communicate it…

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For to be desperate is to discover strength. / We die of comfort and by conflict live.

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“I see you with that shell Held to your sensitive abstracted ear, Hunting the ocean’s rumor till you hear it well, Until you can…

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There is a wilder solitude in winter When every sense is pricked alive and keen.

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I long for the bulbs to arrive, for the early autumn chores are melancholy, but the planting of bulbs is the work of hope…

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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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Innocence is not pure so much as pleased, Always expectant, bright-eyed, self-enclosed

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It is only when our life proceeds within bounds and in an accepted, disciplined way, that the mind can be free.

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