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[On writing:] The most egotistic of occupations, and the most gratifying while it lasts.
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 letter, by its arrival, defrauds us of a whole secret region of our existence, the only region indeed in which the true pleasure of life may be tasted, the region of imagination, creative and protean, the clouds and beautiful shapes of whose heaven are destroyed by the wind of reality.
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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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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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My garden all is overblown with roses,/ My spirit all is overblown with rhyme.
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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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Still, no gardener would be a gardener if he did not live in hope.
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The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied. They always look forward to doing something better than they have ever done before.
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A good start in life is as important to plants as it is to children: they must develop strong roots in a congenial soil, otherwise they will never make the growth that will serve them richly according to their needs in their adult life.
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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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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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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.
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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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The farmer and the gardener are both busy, the gardener perhaps the more excitable of the two, for he is more of the amateur, concerned with the creation of beauty rather than with the providing of food. Gardening is a luxury occupation an ornament, not a necessity, of life.
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A man and his tools make a man and his trade.
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The Saluki is a marvel of elegance.
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Summer makes a silence after spring.
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April, the angel of the months, the young love of the year.
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Successful gardening is not necessarily a question of wealth, it is a question of love, taste, and knowledge.
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all the small squalors of the body, known only to oneself, insignificant in youth, easily dismissed, in old age became dominant and entered into fulfilment of the tyranny they had always threatened.
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