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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
Victoria Sackville-West
Victoria Mary Sackville-West
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Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong.
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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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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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What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.
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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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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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See the last orange roses, how they blow / Deeper and heavier than in their prime, / In one defiant flame before they go.
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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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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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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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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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Things were not tragic for us then, because although we cared passionately we didn't care deeply.
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Not seeing is half-believing.
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How subtle is the relationship between the traveler and his luggage! He knows, as no one else knows, its idiosyncrasies, its contents ... and always some small nuisance which he wishes he had not brought had known, indeed, before starting that he would regret it, but brought it all the same.
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I loved you when love was Spring, and May, Loved you when summer deepened into June, and now when autumn yellows all the leaves.
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I worshipped dead men for their strength, Forgetting I was strong.
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[On writing:] The most egotistic of occupations, and the most gratifying while it lasts.
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