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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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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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Everywhere bees go racing with the hours, / For every bee becomes a drunken lover, / Standing upon his head to sup the flowers.
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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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Still, no gardener would be a gardener if he did not live in hope.
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Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel.
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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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The true solitary ... will feel that he is himself only when he is alone when he is in company he will feel that he perjures himself, prostitutes himself to the exactions of others he will feel that time spent in company is time lost he will be conscious only of his impatience to get back to his true life.
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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?
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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 miss you even more than I could have believed and I was prepared to miss you a good deal.
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I just miss you, in a quite simple desperate human way. Oh my dear, I can’t be clever and stand-offish with you: I love you too much for that. Too truly.You have no idea how stand-offish I can be with people I don’t love. I have brought it to a fine art. But you have broken down my defences. And I don’t really resent it.
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One must be businesslike, although the glass is falling.
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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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It isn't that I don't like sweet disorder, but it has to be judiciously arranged.
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however many resolutions one makes, one's pen, like water, always finds its own level, and one can't write in any way other than one's own.
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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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All craftsmen share a knowledge. They have heldReality down fluttering to a bench.
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A man and his tools make a man and his trade.
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There are no signposts in the sea.
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I cannot abide the Mr. and Mrs. Noah attitude towards marriage the animals went in two by two, forever stuck together with glue.
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