"I suppose the pleasure of the country life……" — Vita Sackville-West
"I suppose the pleasure of the country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live. That is a truism when said, but anything but a truism when daily observed. Nothing shows up the difference between the thing said or read, so much as the daily experience of it."
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43 Quotes by Vita Sackville-West
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Summer makes a silence after spring.
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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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Is it better to be extremely ambitious, or rather modest? Probably the latter is safer; but I hate safety, and…
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For the last 40 years of my life I have broken my back, my fingernails, and sometimes my heart, in…
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