Vita Sackville-West Quotes

» What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.

» Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.

» Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

» I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong.

» 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.

» 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.

» There are no signposts in the sea.

» Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.

» Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel.

» Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

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