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I miss you even more than I could have believed and I was prepared to miss you a good deal.
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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Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.
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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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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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[On writing:] The most egotistic of occupations, and the most gratifying while it lasts.
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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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Forget not bees in winter, though they sleep.
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I loved you when love was Spring, and May, Loved you when summer deepened into June, and now when autumn yellows all the leaves.
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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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Women, like men, ought to have their years so glutted with freedom that they hate the very idea of freedom.
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Every garden-maker should be an artist along his own lines. That is the only possible way to create a garden, irrespective of size or wealth.
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Still, no gardener would be a gardener if he did not live in hope.
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Serenity of spirit and turbulence of action should make up the sum of a man's life.
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For bees are captious folk / And quick to turn against the lubber's touch.
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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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See the last orange roses, how they blow / Deeper and heavier than in their prime, / In one defiant flame before they go.
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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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