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Tools have their own integrity.

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
Victoria Sackville-West
Victoria Mary Sackville-West
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I cannot abide the Mr. and Mrs. Noah attitude towards marriage the animals went in two by two, forever stuck together with glue.
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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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There are no signposts in the sea.
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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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Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time.
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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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I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live.
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April, the angel of the months, the young love of the year.
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How subtle is the relationship between the traveler and his luggage! He knows, as no one else knows, its idiosyncrasies, its contents ... and always some small nuisance which he wishes he had not brought had known, indeed, before starting that he would regret it, but brought it all the same.
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To hope for Paradise is to live in Paradise, a very different thing from actually getting there.
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I cannot bear that you / Should think me faithful, when I am untrue.
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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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Travel is a private pleasure, since it consists entirely of things felt and things seen.
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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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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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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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Things were not tragic for us then, because although we cared passionately we didn't care deeply.
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I like muddling things up and if a herb looks nice in a border, then why not grow it there? Why not grow anything anywhere so long as it looks right where it is? That is, surely, the art of gardening.
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