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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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Travel is a private pleasure, since it consists entirely of things felt and things seen.
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Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel.
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The writer catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind.
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The public, as a whole, finds reassurance in longevity, and, after the necessary interlude of reaction, is disposed to recognize extreme old age as a sign of excellence. The long-liver has triumphed over at least one of man's initial handicaps: the brevity of 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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Flowers really do intoxicate me.
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The wise traveler is he who is perpetually surprised.
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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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For the last 40 years of my life I have broken my back, my fingernails, and sometimes my heart, in the practical pursuit of my favourite occupation.
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One must be businesslike, although the glass is falling.
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I worshipped dead men for their strength, Forgetting I was strong.
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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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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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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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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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I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live.
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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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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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[On writing:] The most egotistic of occupations, and the most gratifying while it lasts.
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