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Not seeing is half-believing.
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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Lady Victoria Sackville-West
Victoria Mary Sackville-West
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Victoria Mary Sackville-West
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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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Serenity of spirit and turbulence of action should make up the sum of a man's life.
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The public, as a whole, finds reassurance in longevity, and, after the necessary interlude of reaction, is disposed to recognize extreme old age as a sign of excellence. The long-liver has triumphed over at least one of man's initial handicaps: the brevity of life.
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See the last orange roses, how they blow / Deeper and heavier than in their prime, / In one defiant flame before they go.
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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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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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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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Summer makes a silence after spring.
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I cannot bear that you / Should think me faithful, when I am untrue.
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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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I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live.
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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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Flowers really do intoxicate me.
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Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.
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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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For bees are captious folk / And quick to turn against the lubber's touch.
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Travel is in sad case. It is uncomfortable, it is expensive it is a source of annoyance to our friends, and of loneliness to ourselves.
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Still, no gardener would be a gardener if he did not live in hope.
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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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Forget not bees in winter, though they sleep.
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