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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.
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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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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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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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 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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One must be businesslike, although the glass is falling.
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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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Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong.
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[On writing:] The most egotistic of occupations, and the most gratifying while it lasts.
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It isn't that I don't like sweet disorder, but it has to be judiciously arranged.
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But you, oh gardener, poet that you be / Though unaware, now use your seeds like words / And make them lilt with color nicely flung.
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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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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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Travel is a private pleasure, since it consists entirely of things felt and things seen.
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Growth is exciting growth is dynamic and alarming.
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For bees are captious folk / And quick to turn against the lubber's touch.
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All craftsmen share a knowledge. They have heldReality down fluttering to a bench.
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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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There is always something else to do. A gardener should have nine times as many lives as a cat.
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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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