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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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Lady Victoria Sackville-West
Victoria Mary Sackville-West
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Victoria Mary Sackville-West
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My garden all is overblown with roses,/ My spirit all is overblown with rhyme.
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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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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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It is dreadful how I miss you, and everything that everybody says seems flat and stupid.
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All craftsmen share a knowledge. They have heldReality down fluttering to a bench.
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a letter, by its arrival, defrauds us of a whole secret region of our existence, the only region indeed in which the true pleasure of life may be tasted, the region of imagination, creative and protean, the clouds and beautiful shapes of whose heaven are destroyed by the wind of reality.
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I worshipped dead men for their strength, Forgetting I was strong.
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