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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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Forget not bees in winter, though they sleep.
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To hope for Paradise is to live in Paradise, a very different thing from actually getting there.
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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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I worshipped dead men for their strength, Forgetting I was strong.
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It is no good my telling you. One never believes other people's experiencem and one is only very gradually convinced by one's own.
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Of course I should love to throw a toothbrush into a bag, and just go, quite vaguely, without any plans or even a real destination. It is the Wanderlust.
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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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Every garden-maker should be an artist along his own lines. That is the only possible way to create a garden, irrespective of size or wealth.
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