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Growth is exciting growth is dynamic and alarming.
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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Knole House
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Lady Victoria Sackville-West
Victoria Mary Sackville-West
Lady Nicolson
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Victoria Mary Sackville-West
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Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong.
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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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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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A good start in life is as important to plants as it is to children: they must develop strong roots in a congenial soil, otherwise they will never make the growth that will serve them richly according to their needs in their adult life.
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Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel.
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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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Travel is a private pleasure, since it consists entirely of things felt and things seen.
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The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied. They always look forward to doing something better than they have ever done before.
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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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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 worshipped dead men for their strength, Forgetting I was strong.
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My garden all is overblown with roses,/ My spirit all is overblown with rhyme.
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Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time.
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