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I cannot bear that you / Should think me faithful, when I am untrue.
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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Victoria Mary Sackville-West
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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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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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[On writing:] The most egotistic of occupations, and the most gratifying while it lasts.
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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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There is always something else to do. A gardener should have nine times as many lives as a cat.
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The Saluki is a marvel of elegance.
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Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong.
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Tools have their own integrity.
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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 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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