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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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Victoria Mary Sackville-West
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The true solitary ... will feel that he is himself only when he is alone when he is in company he will feel that he perjures himself, prostitutes himself to the exactions of others he will feel that time spent in company is time lost he will be conscious only of his impatience to get back to his true life.
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Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time.
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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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To hope for Paradise is to live in Paradise, a very different thing from actually getting there.
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It is dreadful how I miss you, and everything that everybody says seems flat and stupid.
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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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Flowers really do intoxicate me.
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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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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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It isn't that I don't like sweet disorder, but it has to be judiciously arranged.
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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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The wise traveler is he who is perpetually surprised.
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All craftsmen share a knowledge. They have heldReality down fluttering to a bench.
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how poor and disheartening a thing is experience compared with hope!
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