Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.
More Quotes from Vita Sackville-West:
I have come to the conclusion after many years of sometimes sad experience, that you cannot come to any conclusion at all.Vita Sackville-West
The country habit has me by the heart, For he's bewitched forever who has seen, Not with his eyes but with his vision, Spring Flow down the woods and stipple leaves with sun.
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The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied. They always look forward to doing something better than they have ever done before.
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What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.
Vita Sackville-West
I miss you even more than I could have believed and I was prepared to miss you a good deal.
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Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.
Vita Sackville-West
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