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Famous Vita Sackville-West Quotes
“I cannot bear that you / Should think me faithful, when I am untrue.”
“Travel is a private pleasure, since it consists entirely of things felt and things seen.”
“[On writing:] The most egotistic of occupations, and the most gratifying while it lasts.”
“One must be businesslike, although the glass is falling.”
“What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.”
“I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal.”
“It is dreadful how I miss you, and everything that everybody says seems flat and stupid.”
“I worshipped dead men for their strength, Forgetting I was strong.”
“Things were not tragic for us then, because although we cared passionately we didn't care deeply.”
“To hope for Paradise is to live in Paradise, a very different thing from actually getting there.”
“It isn't that I don't like sweet disorder, but it has to be judiciously arranged.”
“My garden all is overblown with roses,/ My spirit all is overblown with rhyme.”