"I worshipped dead men for their strength, Forgetting……" — Vita Sackville-West
"I worshipped dead men for their strength, Forgetting I was strong."
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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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Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must…
— Aristophanes
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
— Aristotle
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Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent…
— David Attenborough
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Canada was built on dead beavers.
— Margaret Atwood
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Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers,…
— Margaret Atwood
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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still…
— Sri Aurobindo
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It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the…
— Paul Auster
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The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
— Francis Bacon
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