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What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.
Vita Sackville-West
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Vita Sackville-West
Age: 70 †
Born: 1892
Born: March 9
Died: 1962
Died: June 2
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Lady Victoria Sackville-West
Victoria Mary Sackville-West
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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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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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Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong.
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How subtle is the relationship between the traveler and his luggage! He knows, as no one else knows, its idiosyncrasies, its contents ... and always some small nuisance which he wishes he had not brought had known, indeed, before starting that he would regret it, but brought it all the same.
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I like muddling things up and if a herb looks nice in a border, then why not grow it there? Why not grow anything anywhere so long as it looks right where it is? That is, surely, the art of gardening.
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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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There's no beginning to the farmer's year, / Only recurrent patterns on a scroll / Unwinding...
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It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten the mood is gone life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop.
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There is always something else to do. A gardener should have nine times as many lives as a cat.
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The more one gardens, the more one learns And the more one learns, the more one realizes how little one knows.
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Women, like men, ought to have their years so glutted with freedom that they hate the very idea of freedom.
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April, the angel of the months, the young love of the year.
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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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To hope for Paradise is to live in Paradise, a very different thing from actually getting there.
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My garden all is overblown with roses,/ My spirit all is overblown with rhyme.
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The Saluki is a marvel of elegance.
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All craftsmen share a knowledge. They have heldReality down fluttering to a bench.
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how poor and disheartening a thing is experience compared with hope!
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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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