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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.
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
Victoria Sackville-West
Victoria Mary Sackville-West
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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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The true solitary ... will feel that he is himself only when he is alone when he is in company he will feel that he perjures himself, prostitutes himself to the exactions of others he will feel that time spent in company is time lost he will be conscious only of his impatience to get back to his true life.
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April, the angel of the months, the young love of the year.
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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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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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The farmer and the gardener are both busy, the gardener perhaps the more excitable of the two, for he is more of the amateur, concerned with the creation of beauty rather than with the providing of food. Gardening is a luxury occupation an ornament, not a necessity, of life.
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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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Successful gardening is not necessarily a question of wealth, it is a question of love, taste, and knowledge.
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I suppose the pleasure of the country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live. That is a truism when said, but anything but a truism when daily observed. Nothing shows up the difference between the thing said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.
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[On writing:] The most egotistic of occupations, and the most gratifying while it lasts.
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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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Growth is exciting growth is dynamic and alarming.
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It is no good my telling you. One never believes other people's experiencem and one is only very gradually convinced by one's own.
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