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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.
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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Victoria Mary Sackville-West
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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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[On writing:] The most egotistic of occupations, and the most gratifying while it lasts.
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I cannot bear that you / Should think me faithful, when I am untrue.
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The wise traveler is he who is perpetually surprised.
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I like muddling things up and if a herb looks nice in a border, then why not grow it there? Why not grow anything anywhere so long as it looks right where it is? That is, surely, the art of gardening.
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A man and his tools make a man and his trade.
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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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One must be businesslike, although the glass is falling.
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Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong.
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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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all the small squalors of the body, known only to oneself, insignificant in youth, easily dismissed, in old age became dominant and entered into fulfilment of the tyranny they had always threatened.
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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?
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Everywhere bees go racing with the hours, / For every bee becomes a drunken lover, / Standing upon his head to sup the flowers.
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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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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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Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.
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Still, no gardener would be a gardener if he did not live in hope.
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