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1. "She walks in the loveliness she made, Between the apple-blossom and the water--She walks among the patterned pied brocade,Each flower her son, and every tree her daughter." ~ Vita Sackville West
2. "I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal." ~ Vita Sackville West
3. "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." ~ Vita Sackville West
4. "We owned a garden on a hill,We planted rose and daffodil,Flowers that English poets sing,And hoped for glory in the Spring.We planted yellow hollyhocks,And humble sweetly-smelling stocks,And columbine for carnival,And dreamt of Summer's festival.And Autumn not to be outdoneAs heiress of the summer sun,Should doubly wreathe her tawny headWith poppies and with creepers red.We waited then for all to grow,We planted wallflowers in a row.And lavender and borage blue, -Alas! we waited, I and you,But love was all that ever grew." ~ Vita Sackville West
5. "Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt." ~ Vita Sackville West
6. "I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong." ~ Vita Sackville West
7. "Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation." ~ Vita Sackville West
8. "What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful." ~ Vita Sackville West
9. "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." ~ Vita Sackville West
10. "There are no signposts in the sea." ~ Vita Sackville West
11. "Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom." ~ Vita Sackville West
12. "Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it." ~ Vita Sackville West
13. "Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan't make you love me any the more by giving myself away like this." ~ Vita Sackville West
14. "J'ai toujours pensé qu'il valait mieux plaire beaucoup à une seule personne, qu'un peu à tout le monde." ~ Vita Sackville West
15. "One must be businesslike, although the glass is falling." ~ Vita Sackville West
16. "Heureuse ! Qu'est-ce que cela signifiait ? C'était tout juste un mot commode pour ceux qui veulement que la vie soit uniformément blanche ou noire, pour ces petites gens perdus dans la jungle humaine et qui cherchent à se rassurer par une formule" ~ Vita Sackville West
17. "I cannot love your weeping poets..." ~ Vita Sackville West
18. "Days I enjoy are days when nothing happens,When I have no engagements written on my block,When no one comes to disturb my inward peace,When no one comes to take me away from myselfAnd turn me into a patchwork, a jig-saw puzzle,A broken mirror that once gave a whole reflection,Being so contrived that it takes too long a timeTo get myself back to myself when they have gone." ~ Vita Sackville West

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I like old people falling over, that's what makes me laugh."
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