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Solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people... precludes awareness of one's self so that after a while the self no longer knows that it exists.

Solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people... precludes awareness of one's self so that after a while the self no longer knows that it exists.

May Sarton
Self, People, Solitude
May Sarton (2014). “At Seventy: A Journal”, p.135, Open Road Media

I simply adore being alone - I find it a consuming thirst - and when that thirst is slaked, then I am happy.

May Sarton
Solitude, Adore, Thirst

Solitude is one thing and loneliness is another.

May Sarton
Loneliness, Solitude, One Thing
May Sarton (2014). “I Knew a Phoenix: Sketches for an Autobiography”, p.16, Open Road Media

At any moment solitude may put on the face of loneliness.

May Sarton
Loneliness, Solitude, May
May Sarton, Edith Royce Schade (1994). “From May Sarton's well: writings of May Sarton”, Papier Mache Pr

Once more I realize that solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people (all naturally solitary people must feel this) precludes awareness of one's self, so after a while the self no longer knows that it exists.

May Sarton
Self, People, Solitude
May Sarton (2014). “At Seventy: A Journal”, p.135, Open Road Media

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

May Sarton
Winter, Solitude, Alive
May Sarton (2014). “As Does New Hampshire: And Other Poems”, p.10, Open Road Media

The value of solitude - one of its values - is, of course, that there is nothing to cushion against attacks from within, just as there is nothing to help balance at times of particular stress or depression.

May Sarton
Stress, Solitude, Balance
May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.8, Open Road Media

Solitude is the salt of personhood. It brings out the authentic flavor of every experience.

May Sarton
Solitude, Flavor, Salt

Life comes in clusters, clusters of solitude, then a cluster when there is hardly time to breathe.

May Sarton
Life, Solitude, Breathe
May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.100, Open Road Media

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