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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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Lady Victoria Sackville-West
Victoria Mary Sackville-West
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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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Women, like men, ought to have their years so glutted with freedom that they hate the very idea of freedom.
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Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong.
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All craftsmen share a knowledge. They have heldReality down fluttering to a bench.
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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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There is always something else to do. A gardener should have nine times as many lives as a cat.
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I do not like January very much. It is too stationary. Not enough happens. I like the evidences of life, and in January there are too few of them.
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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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I have come to the conclusion, after many years of sometimes sad experience, that you cannot come to any conclusion at all.
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[On writing:] The most egotistic of occupations, and the most gratifying while it lasts.
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Travel is in sad case. It is uncomfortable, it is expensive it is a source of annoyance to our friends, and of loneliness to ourselves.
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