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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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Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time.
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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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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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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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Is it better to be extremely ambitious, or rather modest? Probably the latter is safer but I hate safety, and would rather fail gloriously than dingily succeed.
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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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It isn't that I don't like sweet disorder, but it has to be judiciously arranged.
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The wise traveler is he who is perpetually surprised.
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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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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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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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Still, no gardener would be a gardener if he did not live in hope.
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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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Travel is a private pleasure, since it consists entirely of things felt and things seen.
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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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The Saluki is a marvel of elegance.
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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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Women, like men, ought to have their years so glutted with freedom that they hate the very idea of freedom.
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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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