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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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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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To hope for Paradise is to live in Paradise, a very different thing from actually getting there.
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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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There are no signposts in the sea.
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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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Summer makes a silence after spring.
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Is it better to be extremely ambitious, or rather modest? Probably the latter is safer but I hate safety, and would rather fail gloriously than dingily succeed.
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Tools have their own integrity.
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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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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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that pathetic short-cut suggested by Nature the supreme joker as a remedy for our loneliness, that ephemeral communion which we persuade ourselves to be of the spirit when it is in fact only of the body - durable not even in memory!
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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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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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What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.
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My garden all is overblown with roses,/ My spirit all is overblown with rhyme.
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I cannot bear that you / Should think me faithful, when I am untrue.
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