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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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Summer makes a silence after spring.
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I worshipped dead men for their strength, Forgetting I was strong.
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Forget not bees in winter, though they sleep.
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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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Women, like men, ought to have their years so glutted with freedom that they hate the very idea of freedom.
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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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Not seeing is half-believing.
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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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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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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? For the moment passes, it is forgotten the mood is gone life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop.
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All craftsmen share a knowledge. They have heldReality down fluttering to a bench.
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[On writing:] The most egotistic of occupations, and the most gratifying while it lasts.
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Travel is a private pleasure, since it consists entirely of things felt and things seen.
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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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