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A man and his tools make a man and his trade.
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
Lady Nicolson
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Victoria Mary Sackville-West
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I worshipped dead men for their strength, Forgetting I was strong.
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What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.
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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 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 is always something else to do. A gardener should have nine times as many lives as a cat.
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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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Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong.
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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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Travel is a private pleasure, since it consists entirely of things felt and things seen.
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One must be businesslike, although the glass is falling.
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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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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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Click, clack, click, clack, went their conversation, like so many knitting-needles, purl, plain, purl, plain, achieving a complex pattern of references, cross-references, Christian names, nicknames, and fleeting allusions.
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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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The more one gardens, the more one learns And the more one learns, the more one realizes how little one knows.
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how poor and disheartening a thing is experience compared with hope!
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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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All craftsmen share a knowledge. They have heldReality down fluttering to a bench.
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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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