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Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time.
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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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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Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.
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I worshipped dead men for their strength, Forgetting I was strong.
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All craftsmen share a knowledge. They have heldReality down fluttering to a bench.
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I do not like January very much. It is too stationary. Not enough happens. I like the evidences of life, and in January there are too few of them.
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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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But you, oh gardener, poet that you be / Though unaware, now use your seeds like words / And make them lilt with color nicely flung.
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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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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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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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There are no signposts in the sea.
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There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years, from the small acorn of passion, into a great rooted tree
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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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