One cannot be honest even at the end of one's life, for no one is wholly alone. We are bound to those we love, or to those who love us, and to those who need us to be brave, or content, or even happy enough to allow them not to worry about us. So we must refrain from giving pain, as our last gift to our fellows.
Is life a pregnancy? That would make death a birth. - Florida Scott-Maxwell
Is life a pregnancy? That would make death a birth.
- Florida Scott-Maxwell
Life does not acommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be… - Florida Scott-Maxwell
Life does not acommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be…
I wonder why love is so often equated with joy when it is everything else as well. Devastation, balm, obsession, granting and receiving excessive val… - Florida Scott-Maxwell
I wonder why love is so often equated with joy when it is everything else as well. Devastation, balm, obsession, granting and receiving excessive val…
My kitchen linoleum is so black and shiny that I waltz while I wait for the kettle to boil. This pleasure is for the old who live alone. - Florida Scott-Maxwell
My kitchen linoleum is so black and shiny that I waltz while I wait for the kettle to boil. This pleasure is for the old who live alone.
Claim the events of your life! When you posses all you have been and done, you are fierce with reality. - Florida Scott-Maxwell
Claim the events of your life! When you posses all you have been and done, you are fierce with reality.
Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting, and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense … - Florida Scott-Maxwell
Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting, and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense …
You need only claim the events of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you … - Florida Scott-Maxwell
You need only claim the events of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you …
No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement. - Florida Scott-Maxwell
No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
I wonder if living alone makes one more alive. No precious energy goes in disagreement or compromise. No need to augment others, there is just yourse… - Florida Scott-Maxwell
I wonder if living alone makes one more alive. No precious energy goes in disagreement or compromise. No need to augment others, there is just yourse…
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