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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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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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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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