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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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Victoria Mary Sackville-West
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But you, oh gardener, poet that you be / Though unaware, now use your seeds like words / And make them lilt with color nicely flung.
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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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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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The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied. They always look forward to doing something better than they have ever done before.
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There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years, from the small acorn of passion, into a great rooted tree
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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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There are no signposts in the sea.
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The wise traveler is he who is perpetually surprised.
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[On writing:] The most egotistic of occupations, and the most gratifying while it lasts.
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how poor and disheartening a thing is experience compared with hope!
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I worshipped dead men for their strength, Forgetting I was strong.
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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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Everywhere bees go racing with the hours, / For every bee becomes a drunken lover, / Standing upon his head to sup the flowers.
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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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A flowerless room is a soulless room, to my way of thinking but even a solitary little vase of a living flower may redeem it.
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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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Women, like men, ought to have their years so glutted with freedom that they hate the very idea of freedom.
Vita Sackville-West
Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.
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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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One must be businesslike, although the glass is falling.
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