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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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  Compassion, Generosity, Care

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• There is something intrinsically wrong about letters. For one thing they are not instantaneous. ... Nor is this the only trouble about letters. They do not arrive often enough. A letter which has been passionately awaited should be immediately supplemented by another one, to counteract the feeling of flatness that comes upon us when the agonizing delights of anticipation have been replaced by the colder flood of fulfilment.

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  Feelings, Delight, Agonizing

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• I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live.

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  Country, Determination, Lying

  Vita Sackville-West (2015). “Vita Sackville-West: Selected Writings”, Macmillan

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• There are no signposts in the sea.

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  Sea, Choices, Signposts

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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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  Hope, Different, Paradise

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• Of course I should love to throw a toothbrush into a bag, and just go, quite vaguely, without any plans or even a real destination. It is the Wanderlust.

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  Real, Bags, Should

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• The writer catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind.

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  Soul, Growth, Mind

  Vita Sackville-West, Mary Ann Caws (2003). “Vita Sackville-West: Selected Writings”, p.125, Palgrave Macmillan

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• Violence, passion, indignation, loyalty, integrity, incorruptibility, shameless egoism, generosity, excitability, energy, a hundred horse-power drive - none of it very subtle: Ethel [Smyth] didn't deal in pastel shades, she went for the stronger colors, the blood-red, anything deep and pumping out of the arteries of the heart.

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  Loyalty, Horse, Integrity

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• Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong.

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  Travel, Want, Hong Kong

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• All craftsmen share a knowledge. They have heldReality down fluttering to a bench.

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  Benches, Share, Craftsman

  1926 The Land,'Summer'.

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• It is no good my telling you. One never believes other people's experiencem and one is only very gradually convinced by one's own.

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  Believe, People, Convinced

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• Travel is in sad case. It is uncomfortable, it is expensive; it is a source of annoyance to our friends, and of loneliness to ourselves.

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  Travel, Loneliness, Source

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• The Saluki is a marvel of elegance.

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  Dog, Elegance

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• however many resolutions one makes, one's pen, like water, always finds its own level, and one can't write in any way other than one's own.

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  Writing, Water, Levels

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• 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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  Writing, Choices, Novelists

  Vita Sackville-West (2015). “Vita Sackville-West: Selected Writings”, p.352, Macmillan

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• Summer makes a silence after spring.

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  Summer, Spring, June

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• I cannot bear that you / Should think me faithful, when I am untrue.

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  Thinking, Faithful, Infidelity

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• Tools have their own integrity.

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  Integrity, Tools, Usefulness

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• The public, as a whole, finds reassurance in longevity, and, after the necessary interlude of reaction, is disposed to recognize extreme old age as a sign of excellence. The long-liver has triumphed over at least one of man's initial handicaps: the brevity of life.

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  Men, Long, Excellence

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• [On writing:] The most egotistic of occupations, and the most gratifying while it lasts.

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  Writing, Occupation, Lasts

  Victoria Sackville-West, Vita Sackville-West (1985). “No Signposts in the Sea”, Penguin Group USA

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• Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming.

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  Growth, Exciting

  Vita Sackville-West (2015). “Vita Sackville-West: Selected Writings”, Macmillan

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• all the small squalors of the body, known only to oneself, insignificant in youth, easily dismissed, in old age became dominant and entered into fulfilment of the tyranny they had always threatened.

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  Age, Body, Youth

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• Travel is a private pleasure, since it consists entirely of things felt and things seen.

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  Travel, Pleasure, Felt

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• One must be businesslike, although the glass is falling.

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  Fall, Glasses

  Vita Sackville-West (2016). “All Passion Spent”, p.49, Random House

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• It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How
  else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment?

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  Writing, Butterfly, Moments

  Vita Sackville-West (2015). “Vita Sackville-West: Selected Writings”, Macmillan

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