"I love giving flowers. It is so deliciously unlasting and romantic."

-- May Sarton

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“The brother of my grandfather was the patriarch of the Orthodox Church and revered as a saint. So everything in my childhood is about total sacrifice, whether to religion or to communism. This is what is engraved on me. This is why I have this insane willpower. My body is now beginning to be falling apart, but I will do it to the end. I don't care. With me it is about whatever it takes.”
“i wondered if i would spend the rest of my life inventing complicated ways to depress myself..”
“It is the Mass the matters.”
“There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends.”
“Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.”
“I would like travelers, especially American travelers, to travel in a way that broadens their perspective, because I think Americans tend to be some of the most ethnocentric people on the planet. It's not just Americans, it's the big countries. It's the biggest countries that tend to be ethnocentric or ugly. There are ugly Russians, ugly Germans, ugly Japanese and ugly Americans. You don't find ugly Belgians or ugly Bulgarians, they're just too small to think the world is their norm.”
“This is over 10 years in the making for me and just a dream come true. I'm the luckiest person in the world.”
“The day you were born, it was already written down the day you're gonna check out. Now, I'm not gonna throw myself under a truck, but I'm not gonna worry about when I die. I'm ready to move on when that day comes.”

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