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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.
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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Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong.
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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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Not seeing is half-believing.
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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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Serenity of spirit and turbulence of action should make up the sum of a man's life.
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There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years, from the small acorn of passion, into a great rooted tree
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I cannot bear that you / Should think me faithful, when I am untrue.
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