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It is dreadful how I miss you, and everything that everybody says seems flat and stupid.
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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Knole House
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Lady Victoria Sackville-West
Victoria Mary Sackville-West
Lady Nicolson
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Victoria Mary Sackville-West
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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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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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Things were not tragic for us then, because although we cared passionately we didn't care deeply.
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I cannot abide the Mr. and Mrs. Noah attitude towards marriage the animals went in two by two, forever stuck together with glue.
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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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Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.
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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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All craftsmen share a knowledge. They have heldReality down fluttering to a bench.
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