Quote by May Sarton
May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, amb

May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best — out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters. – May Sarton

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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. – May Sarton

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gardening
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Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers. – May Sarton

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I can understand people simply fleeing the mountainous effort Christmas has become… but there are always a few saving graces and finally they make up for all the bother and distress. – May Sarton

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There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life. – George Eliot

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Big Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government and in an increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records high with reasons why privacy should give way to national security, to law and order, to efficiency of operation, to scientific advancement and the like. – William O. Douglas

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Privacy is not something that Im merely entitled to, its an absolute prerequisite. – Marlon Brando

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The real danger is the gradual erosion of individual liberties through automation, integration, and interconnection of many small, separate record-keeping systems, each of which alone may seem innocuous, even benevolent, and wholly justifiable. – Anon.

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It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few. – Pythagoras

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I dont take any photographs. I travel a lot by myself, and I feel weird taking photos on my own. – Jamie Bell

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Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. – Robert Benchley

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Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life’s Little Instruction Book

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