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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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The writer catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind.
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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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Successful gardening is not necessarily a question of wealth, it is a question of love, taste, and knowledge.
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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 miss you even more than I could have believed and I was prepared to miss you a good deal.
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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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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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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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Flowers really do intoxicate me.
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how poor and disheartening a thing is experience compared with hope!
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It is dreadful how I miss you, and everything that everybody says seems flat and stupid.
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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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It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten the mood is gone life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop.
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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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Serenity of spirit and turbulence of action should make up the sum of a man's life.
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The public, as a whole, finds reassurance in longevity, and, after the necessary interlude of reaction, is disposed to recognize extreme old age as a sign of excellence. The long-liver has triumphed over at least one of man's initial handicaps: the brevity of life.
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Still, no gardener would be a gardener if he did not live in hope.
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My garden all is overblown with roses,/ My spirit all is overblown with rhyme.
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What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.
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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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