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There's no beginning to the farmer's year, / Only recurrent patterns on a scroll / Unwinding...

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Vita Sackville-West
Age: 70 †
Born: 1892
Born: March 9
Died: 1962
Died: June 2
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Gardener
Horticulturist
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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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Forget not bees in winter, though they sleep.
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It is no good my telling you. One never believes other people's experiencem and one is only very gradually convinced by 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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Flowers really do intoxicate me.
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I miss you even more than I could have believed and I was prepared to miss you a good deal.
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I cannot bear that you / Should think me faithful, when I am untrue.
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Travel is a private pleasure, since it consists entirely of things felt and things seen.
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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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Violence, passion, indignation, loyalty, integrity, incorruptibility, shameless egoism, generosity, excitability, energy, a hundred horse-power drive - none of it very subtle: Ethel [Smyth] didn't deal in pastel shades, she went for the stronger colors, the blood-red, anything deep and pumping out of the arteries of the heart.
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