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Vita Sackville West Inspirational Quotes (74)

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however many resolutions one makes, one's pen, like water, always finds its own level, and one can't write in any way other than one's own.
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I miss you even more than I could have believed and I was prepared to miss you a good deal.
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Click, clack, click, clack, went their conversation, like so many knitting-needles, purl, plain, purl, plain, achieving a complex pattern of references, cross-references, Christian names, nicknames, and fleeting allusions.
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Of course I should love to throw a toothbrush into a bag, and just go, quite vaguely, without any plans or even a real destination. It is the Wanderlust.
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What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.
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how poor and disheartening a thing is experience compared with hope!
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The Saluki is a marvel of elegance.
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It isn't that I don't like sweet disorder, but it has to be judiciously arranged.
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Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong.
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a letter, by its arrival, defrauds us of a whole secret region of our existence, the only region indeed in which the true pleasure of life may be tasted, the region of imagination, creative and protean, the clouds and beautiful shapes of whose heaven are destroyed by the wind of reality.
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I worshipped dead men for their strength, Forgetting I was strong.
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There are no signposts in the sea.
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Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong.
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I just miss you, in a quite simple desperate human way. Oh my dear, I can’t be clever and stand-offish with you: I love you too much for that. Too truly.You have no idea how stand-offish I can be with people I don’t love. I have brought it to a fine art. But you have broken down my defences. And I don’t really resent it.
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One must be businesslike, although the glass is falling.
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I have come to the conclusion, after many years of sometimes sad experience, that you cannot come to any conclusion at all.
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It is no good my telling you. One never believes other people's experiencem and one is only very gradually convinced by one's own.
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Tools have their own integrity.
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Travel is in sad case. It is uncomfortable, it is expensive it is a source of annoyance to our friends, and of loneliness to ourselves.
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April, the angel of the months, the young love of the year.
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Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time.
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Autumn in felted slipper shuffles on, Muted yet fiery.--Vita Sackville-West
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The true solitary ... will feel that he is himself only when he is alone when he is in company he will feel that he perjures himself, prostitutes himself to the exactions of others he will feel that time spent in company is time lost he will be conscious only of his impatience to get back to his true life.
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Successful gardening is not necessarily a question of wealth, it is a question of love, taste, and knowledge.
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