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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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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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I suppose the pleasure of the country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live. That is a truism when said, but anything but a truism when daily observed. Nothing shows up the difference between the thing said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.
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What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.
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All craftsmen share a knowledge. They have heldReality down fluttering to a bench.
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[On writing:] The most egotistic of occupations, and the most gratifying while it lasts.
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