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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.
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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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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My garden all is overblown with roses,/ My spirit all is overblown with rhyme.
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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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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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Still, no gardener would be a gardener if he did not live in hope.
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It is dreadful how I miss you, and everything that everybody says seems flat and stupid.
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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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I miss you even more than I could have believed and I was prepared to miss you a good deal.
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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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Travel is a private pleasure, since it consists entirely of things felt and things seen.
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But you, oh gardener, poet that you be / Though unaware, now use your seeds like words / And make them lilt with color nicely flung.
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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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April, the angel of the months, the young love of the year.
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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?
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One must be businesslike, although the glass is falling.
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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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The wise traveler is he who is perpetually surprised.
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