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There are no signposts in the sea.
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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There is always something else to do. A gardener should have nine times as many lives as a cat.
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Everywhere bees go racing with the hours, / For every bee becomes a drunken lover, / Standing upon his head to sup the flowers.
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Of course I should love to throw a toothbrush into a bag, and just go, quite vaguely, without any plans or even a real destination. It is the Wanderlust.
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Forget not bees in winter, though they sleep.
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April, the angel of the months, the young love of the year.
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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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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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Things were not tragic for us then, because although we cared passionately we didn't care deeply.
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Click, clack, click, clack, went their conversation, like so many knitting-needles, purl, plain, purl, plain, achieving a complex pattern of references, cross-references, Christian names, nicknames, and fleeting allusions.
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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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Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel.
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I cannot bear that you / Should think me faithful, when I am untrue.
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I have come to the conclusion, after many years of sometimes sad experience, that you cannot come to any conclusion at all.
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[On writing:] The most egotistic of occupations, and the most gratifying while it lasts.
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What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.
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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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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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The wise traveler is he who is perpetually surprised.
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