"Is it better to be extremely ambitious, or……" — Vita Sackville-West
"Is it better to be extremely ambitious, or rather modest? Probably the latter is safer; but I hate safety, and would rather fail gloriously than dingily succeed."
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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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For the last 40 years of my life I have broken my back, my fingernails, and sometimes my heart, in…
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Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of…
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My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition;…
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Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute…
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It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
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