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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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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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For bees are captious folk / And quick to turn against the lubber's touch.
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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 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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April, the angel of the months, the young love of the year.
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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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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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The true solitary ... will feel that he is himself only when he is alone when he is in company he will feel that he perjures himself, prostitutes himself to the exactions of others he will feel that time spent in company is time lost he will be conscious only of his impatience to get back to his true life.
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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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What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.
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How subtle is the relationship between the traveler and his luggage! He knows, as no one else knows, its idiosyncrasies, its contents ... and always some small nuisance which he wishes he had not brought had known, indeed, before starting that he would regret it, but brought it all the same.
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