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Autumn in felted slipper shuffles on, Muted yet fiery.--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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Knole House
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Lady Victoria Sackville-West
Victoria Mary Sackville-West
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Victoria Mary Sackville-West
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A good start in life is as important to plants as it is to children: they must develop strong roots in a congenial soil, otherwise they will never make the growth that will serve them richly according to their needs in their adult life.
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I worshipped dead men for their strength, Forgetting I was strong.
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Still, no gardener would be a gardener if he did not live in hope.
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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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I miss you even more than I could have believed and I was prepared to miss you a good deal.
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What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.
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Travel is in sad case. It is uncomfortable, it is expensive it is a source of annoyance to our friends, and of loneliness to ourselves.
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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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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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Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong.
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Things were not tragic for us then, because although we cared passionately we didn't care deeply.
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There's no beginning to the farmer's year, / Only recurrent patterns on a scroll / Unwinding...
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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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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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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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Of course I should love to throw a toothbrush into a bag, and just go, quite vaguely, without any plans or even a real destination. It is the Wanderlust.
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