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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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For bees are captious folk / And quick to turn against the lubber's touch.
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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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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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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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It isn't that I don't like sweet disorder, but it has to be judiciously arranged.
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Click, clack, click, clack, went their conversation, like so many knitting-needles, purl, plain, purl, plain, achieving a complex pattern of references, cross-references, Christian names, nicknames, and fleeting allusions.
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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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that pathetic short-cut suggested by Nature the supreme joker as a remedy for our loneliness, that ephemeral communion which we persuade ourselves to be of the spirit when it is in fact only of the body - durable not even in memory!
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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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Women, like men, ought to have their years so glutted with freedom that they hate the very idea of freedom.
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Everywhere bees go racing with the hours, / For every bee becomes a drunken lover, / Standing upon his head to sup the flowers.
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Travel is in sad case. It is uncomfortable, it is expensive it is a source of annoyance to our friends, and of loneliness to ourselves.
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Still, no gardener would be a gardener if he did not live in hope.
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I just miss you, in a quite simple desperate human way. Oh my dear, I can’t be clever and stand-offish with you: I love you too much for that. Too truly.You have no idea how stand-offish I can be with people I don’t love. I have brought it to a fine art. But you have broken down my defences. And I don’t really resent it.
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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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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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The wise traveler is he who is perpetually surprised.
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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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The Saluki is a marvel of elegance.
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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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