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The wise traveler is he who is perpetually surprised.
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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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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Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong.
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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 just miss you, in a quite simple desperate human way. Oh my dear, I can’t be clever and stand-offish with you: I love you too much for that. Too truly.You have no idea how stand-offish I can be with people I don’t love. I have brought it to a fine art. But you have broken down my defences. And I don’t really resent it.
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It is dreadful how I miss you, and everything that everybody says seems flat and stupid.
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I cannot bear that you / Should think me faithful, when I am untrue.
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