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To hope for Paradise is to live in Paradise, a very different thing from actually getting there.
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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I cannot bear that you / Should think me faithful, when I am untrue.
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How subtle is the relationship between the traveler and his luggage! He knows, as no one else knows, its idiosyncrasies, its contents ... and always some small nuisance which he wishes he had not brought had known, indeed, before starting that he would regret it, but brought it all the same.
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[On writing:] The most egotistic of occupations, and the most gratifying while it lasts.
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For the last 40 years of my life I have broken my back, my fingernails, and sometimes my heart, in the practical pursuit of my favourite occupation.
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Summer makes a silence after spring.
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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? For the moment passes, it is forgotten the mood is gone life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop.
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The writer catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind.
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There are no signposts in the sea.
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Forget not bees in winter, though they sleep.
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What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.
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A good start in life is as important to plants as it is to children: they must develop strong roots in a congenial soil, otherwise they will never make the growth that will serve them richly according to their needs in their adult life.
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however many resolutions one makes, one's pen, like water, always finds its own level, and one can't write in any way other than one's own.
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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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My garden all is overblown with roses,/ My spirit all is overblown with rhyme.
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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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I miss you even more than I could have believed and I was prepared to miss you a good deal.
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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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A man and his tools make a man and his trade.
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I worshipped dead men for their strength, Forgetting I was strong.
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