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Travel is a private pleasure, since it consists entirely of things felt and things seen.
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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See the last orange roses, how they blow / Deeper and heavier than in their prime, / In one defiant flame before they go.
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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 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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I worshipped dead men for their strength, Forgetting I was strong.
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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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I miss you even more than I could have believed and I was prepared to miss you a good deal.
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Serenity of spirit and turbulence of action should make up the sum of a man's life.
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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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Is it better to be extremely ambitious, or rather modest? Probably the latter is safer but I hate safety, and would rather fail gloriously than dingily succeed.
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One must be businesslike, although the glass is falling.
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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 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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I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live.
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I suppose the pleasure of the country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live. That is a truism when said, but anything but a truism when daily observed. Nothing shows up the difference between the thing said or read, so much as the daily experience of 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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how poor and disheartening a thing is experience compared with hope!
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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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For the last 40 years of my life I have broken my back, my fingernails, and sometimes my heart, in the practical pursuit of my favourite occupation.
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however many resolutions one makes, one's pen, like water, always finds its own level, and one can't write in any way other than one's own.
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What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.
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