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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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Violence, passion, indignation, loyalty, integrity, incorruptibility, shameless egoism, generosity, excitability, energy, a hundred horse-power drive - none of it very subtle: Ethel [Smyth] didn't deal in pastel shades, she went for the stronger colors, the blood-red, anything deep and pumping out of the arteries of the heart.
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For the last 40 years of my life I have broken my back, my fingernails, and sometimes my heart, in the practical pursuit of my favourite occupation.
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It is no good my telling you. One never believes other people's experiencem and one is only very gradually convinced by one's own.
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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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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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Successful gardening is not necessarily a question of wealth, it is a question of love, taste, and knowledge.
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For a young man to start his career with a love affair with an older woman was quite de rigueur ... Of course, it must not go on for too long. An apprenticeship was a very different thing from a career.
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how poor and disheartening a thing is experience compared with hope!
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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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Flowers really do intoxicate me.
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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 cannot bear that you / Should think me faithful, when I am untrue.
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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.
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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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