"Among the many problems which beset the novelist,……" — Vita Sackville-West
"Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel."
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43 Quotes by Vita Sackville-West
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The more one gardens, the more one learns; And the more one learns, the more one realizes how little one…
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Summer makes a silence after spring.
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The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied. They always look…
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Gardening is a luxury occupation: an ornament, not a necessity, of life.... Fortunate gardener, who may preoccupy himself solely with…
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A flowerless room is a soulless room, to my way of thinking; but even a solitary little vase of a…
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Flowers really do intoxicate me.
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I loved you when love was Spring, and May, Loved you when summer deepened into June, and now when autumn…
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Things were not tragic for us then, because although we cared passionately we didn't care deeply.
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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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It isn't that I don't like sweet disorder, but it has to be judiciously arranged.
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I suppose the pleasure of the country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live.…
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Is it better to be extremely ambitious, or rather modest? Probably the latter is safer; but I hate safety, and…
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