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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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Victoria Mary Sackville-West
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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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A man and his tools make a man and his trade.
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There's no beginning to the farmer's year, / Only recurrent patterns on a scroll / Unwinding...
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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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There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years, from the small acorn of passion, into a great rooted tree
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Flowers really do intoxicate me.
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Summer makes a silence after spring.
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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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I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live.
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I worshipped dead men for their strength, Forgetting I was strong.
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I cannot bear that you / Should think me faithful, when I am untrue.
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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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What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.
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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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all the small squalors of the body, known only to oneself, insignificant in youth, easily dismissed, in old age became dominant and entered into fulfilment of the tyranny they had always threatened.
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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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It is dreadful how I miss you, and everything that everybody says seems flat and stupid.
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For bees are captious folk / And quick to turn against the lubber's touch.
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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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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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