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For bees are captious folk / And quick to turn against the lubber's touch.
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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Lady Victoria Sackville-West
Victoria Mary Sackville-West
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Victoria Mary Sackville-West
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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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My garden all is overblown with roses,/ My spirit all is overblown with rhyme.
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Serenity of spirit and turbulence of action should make up the sum of a man's life.
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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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It isn't that I don't like sweet disorder, but it has to be judiciously arranged.
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Tools have their own integrity.
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A man and his tools make a man and his trade.
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I worshipped dead men for their strength, Forgetting I was strong.
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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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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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Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.
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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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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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One must be businesslike, although the glass is falling.
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It is dreadful how I miss you, and everything that everybody says seems flat and stupid.
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Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong.
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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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Still, no gardener would be a gardener if he did not live in hope.
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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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