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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
Knole
Lady Victoria Sackville-West
Victoria Mary Sackville-West
Lady Nicolson
Victoria Sackville-West
Victoria Mary Sackville-West
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[On writing:] The most egotistic of occupations, and the most gratifying while it lasts.
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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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For bees are captious folk / And quick to turn against the lubber's touch.
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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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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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Summer makes a silence after spring.
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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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Successful gardening is not necessarily a question of wealth, it is a question of love, taste, and knowledge.
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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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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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Women, like men, ought to have their years so glutted with freedom that they hate the very idea of freedom.
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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 is dreadful how I miss you, and everything that everybody says seems flat and stupid.
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