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For a young man to start his career with a love affair with an older woman was quite de rigueur ... Of course, it must not go on for too long. An apprenticeship was a very different thing from a career.
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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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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Click, clack, click, clack, went their conversation, like so many knitting-needles, purl, plain, purl, plain, achieving a complex pattern of references, cross-references, Christian names, nicknames, and fleeting allusions.
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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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Summer makes a silence after spring.
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Tools have their own integrity.
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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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I worshipped dead men for their strength, Forgetting I was strong.
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