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Serenity of spirit and turbulence of action should make up the sum of a man's life.
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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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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Women, like men, ought to have their years so glutted with freedom that they hate the very idea of freedom.
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It is dreadful how I miss you, and everything that everybody says seems flat and stupid.
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Every garden-maker should be an artist along his own lines. That is the only possible way to create a garden, irrespective of size or wealth.
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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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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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To hope for Paradise is to live in Paradise, a very different thing from actually getting there.
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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? For the moment passes, it is forgotten the mood is gone life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop.
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The writer catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind.
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I loved you when love was Spring, and May, Loved you when summer deepened into June, and now when autumn yellows all the leaves.
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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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The wise traveler is he who is perpetually surprised.
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I worshipped dead men for their strength, Forgetting I was strong.
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The farmer and the gardener are both busy, the gardener perhaps the more excitable of the two, for he is more of the amateur, concerned with the creation of beauty rather than with the providing of food. Gardening is a luxury occupation an ornament, not a necessity, of life.
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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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[On writing:] The most egotistic of occupations, and the most gratifying while it lasts.
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I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live.
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I like muddling things up and if a herb looks nice in a border, then why not grow it there? Why not grow anything anywhere so long as it looks right where it is? That is, surely, the art of gardening.
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Autumn in felted slipper shuffles on, Muted yet fiery.--Vita Sackville-West
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