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My garden all is overblown with roses,/ My spirit all is overblown with rhyme.
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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It is dreadful how I miss you, and everything that everybody says seems flat and stupid.
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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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Serenity of spirit and turbulence of action should make up the sum of a man's life.
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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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I just miss you, in a quite simple desperate human way. Oh my dear, I can’t be clever and stand-offish with you: I love you too much for that. Too truly.You have no idea how stand-offish I can be with people I don’t love. I have brought it to a fine art. But you have broken down my defences. And I don’t really resent it.
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Forget not bees in winter, though they sleep.
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The public, as a whole, finds reassurance in longevity, and, after the necessary interlude of reaction, is disposed to recognize extreme old age as a sign of excellence. The long-liver has triumphed over at least one of man's initial handicaps: the brevity of life.
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The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied. They always look forward to doing something better than they have ever done before.
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I cannot bear that you / Should think me faithful, when I am untrue.
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how poor and disheartening a thing is experience compared with hope!
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that pathetic short-cut suggested by Nature the supreme joker as a remedy for our loneliness, that ephemeral communion which we persuade ourselves to be of the spirit when it is in fact only of the body - durable not even in memory!
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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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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.
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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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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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Tools have their own integrity.
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All craftsmen share a knowledge. They have heldReality down fluttering to a bench.
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April, the angel of the months, the young love of the year.
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