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Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.
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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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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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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My garden all is overblown with roses,/ My spirit all is overblown with rhyme.
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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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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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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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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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One must be businesslike, although the glass is falling.
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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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There is always something else to do. A gardener should have nine times as many lives as a cat.
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Growth is exciting growth is dynamic and alarming.
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What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.
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Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong.
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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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