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There's no beginning to the farmer's year, / Only recurrent patterns on a scroll / Unwinding...
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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Victoria Mary Sackville-West
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I cannot bear that you / Should think me faithful, when I am untrue.
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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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how poor and disheartening a thing is experience compared with hope!
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Not seeing is half-believing.
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Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong.
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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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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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A man and his tools make a man and his trade.
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Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong.
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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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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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Every garden-maker should be an artist along his own lines. That is the only possible way to create a garden, irrespective of size or wealth.
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however many resolutions one makes, one's pen, like water, always finds its own level, and one can't write in any way other than one's own.
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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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One must be businesslike, although the glass is falling.
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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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I just miss you, in a quite simple desperate human way. Oh my dear, I can’t be clever and stand-offish with you: I love you too much for that. Too truly.You have no idea how stand-offish I can be with people I don’t love. I have brought it to a fine art. But you have broken down my defences. And I don’t really resent it.
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My garden all is overblown with roses,/ My spirit all is overblown with rhyme.
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Growth is exciting growth is dynamic and alarming.
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For a young man to start his career with a love affair with an older woman was quite de rigueur ... Of course, it must not go on for too long. An apprenticeship was a very different thing from a career.
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