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Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong.
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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Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.
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[On writing:] The most egotistic of occupations, and the most gratifying while it lasts.
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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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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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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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It is dreadful how I miss you, and everything that everybody says seems flat and stupid.
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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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The wise traveler is he who is perpetually surprised.
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Tools have their own integrity.
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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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All craftsmen share a knowledge. They have heldReality down fluttering to a bench.
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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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What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.
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A man and his tools make a man and his trade.
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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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