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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.
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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Women, like men, ought to have their years so glutted with freedom that they hate the very idea of freedom.
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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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I worshipped dead men for their strength, Forgetting I was strong.
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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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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 miss you even more than I could have believed and I was prepared to miss you a good deal.
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Not seeing is half-believing.
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how poor and disheartening a thing is experience compared with hope!
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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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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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Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.
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