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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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vita-sackville-west/for-a-young-man-to-start-his-career-with-a-love-affair-with-an-older/)

[Vita Sackville-West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vita-sackville-west/)

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## More by Vita Sackville-West

> [For a young man to start his career with a love affair with an older woman was quite de rigueur ... Of course, it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vita-sackville-west/for-a-young-man-to-start-his-career-with-a-love-affair-with-an-older/)

[Vita Sackville-West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vita-sackville-west/)

> [I cannot bear that you / Should think me faithful, when I am untrue.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vita-sackville-west/i-cannot-bear-that-you-should-think-me-faithful-when-i-am-untrue/)

[Vita Sackville-West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vita-sackville-west/)

> [“This is how you must imagine your letters arriving, and me carrying them off to read in peace, and saying 'oh darling Virginia', and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vita-sackville-west/this-is-how-you-must-imagine-your-letters-arriving-and-me-carrying/)

[Vita Sackville-West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vita-sackville-west/)

> [“There had been no moments when she could differentiate and say: Then, at such a moment, I love him; and again, Then, at such…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vita-sackville-west/there-had-been-no-moments-when-she-could-differentiate-and-say-then/)

[Vita Sackville-West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vita-sackville-west/)

> [Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vita-sackville-west/women-like-men-ought-to-have-their-youth-so-glutted-with-freedom-they/)

[Vita Sackville-West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vita-sackville-west/)

> [The farmer and the gardener are both busy, the gardener perhaps the more excitable of the two, for he is more of the amateur,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vita-sackville-west/the-farmer-and-the-gardener-are-both-busy-the-gardener-perhaps-the/)

[Vita Sackville-West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vita-sackville-west/)

> [For the last 40 years of my life I have broken my back, my fingernails, and sometimes my heart, in the practical pursuit of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vita-sackville-west/for-the-last-40-years-of-my-life-i-have-broken-my-back-my-fingernails/)

[Vita Sackville-West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vita-sackville-west/)

> [Successful gardening is not necessarily a question of wealth, it is a question of love, taste, and knowledge.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vita-sackville-west/successful-gardening-is-not-necessarily-a-question-of-wealth-it-is-a/)

[Vita Sackville-West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vita-sackville-west/)

> [What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vita-sackville-west/what-is-beautiful-is-good-and-who-is-good-will-soon-be-beautiful/)

[Vita Sackville-West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vita-sackville-west/)

> [My garden all is overblown with roses,/ My spirit all is overblown with rhyme,](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vita-sackville-west/my-garden-all-is-overblown-with-roses-my-spirit-all-is-overblown-with/)

[Vita Sackville-West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vita-sackville-west/)

> [Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vita-sackville-west/nothing-shows-up-the-difference-between-the-things-said-or-read-so/)

[Vita Sackville-West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vita-sackville-west/)

> [how poor and disheartening a thing is experience compared with hope!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vita-sackville-west/how-poor-and-disheartening-a-thing-is-experience-compared-with-hope/)

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> [ “You angel, you have written. \[...\] Please, in all this muddle of life, continue to be a bright and constant star. Just a few… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vita-sackville-west/you-angel-you-have-written-please-in-all-this-muddle-of-life-continue/)

[Vita Sackville-West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vita-sackville-west/)

> [I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vita-sackville-west/i-miss-you-even-more-than-i-could-have-believed-and-i-was-prepared-to/)

[Vita Sackville-West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vita-sackville-west/)

> [I like muddling things up; and if a herb looks nice in a border, then why not grow it there? Why not grow anything…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vita-sackville-west/i-like-muddling-things-up-and-if-a-herb-looks-nice-in-a-border-then/)

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