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“What is there to do when people die - people so dear and rare - but bring them back by remembering?” quote by May Sarton — Download Open image

“What is there to do when people die - people so dear and rare - but bring them back by remembering?”

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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 set down the sound you hear:— Fixed to a shell like that you made immortal, This heart listens, this fragile auricle Holds rumor like your ocean’s, is a portal That sometimes opens to contain the miracle.…

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?

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

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I gave my archive to Emory University because there's a really dear friend who teaches there, Rudolph Byrd, and he's the editor.

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O lands! O all so dear to me - what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is.

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Dear God, I trust that no matter what happens in my life, it is for my highest good. And no matter what happens in the lives of those I love, it is for their highest good. From all things that are put before us all, we shall become stronger and more loving people. I am grateful for all the beauty…

Most beautiful is the sight of those near and dear to us when our original kinship makes us of one mind.

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Oh, dear Hazel.” Aphrodite folded her fan. “Such optimism, yet you have heartrending days ahead of you. Of course war is coming. Love and…

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You may be sure, dear Crito, that inaccurate language is not only in itself a mistake: it implants evil in men's souls.

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You're thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk. I can't tell you just now what the moral of that…

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It must be that I am dreaming, and that I shall awaken in a moment to see that awful knife descending toward my heart-…

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In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern…

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Dear John, tell me everything. Write it all down, that way, we’ll be with each other all the time, even if we’re not with…

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'Madea' is a Southern term. It's short for 'mother dear.' So there are a lot of Madeas out there.

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