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Still, no gardener would be a gardener if he did not live in hope.

Vita Sackville-West

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

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Of course I have no right whatsoever to write down the truth about my life involving as it naturally does the lives of so many other people, but I do so urged by a necessity of truth-telling, because there is no living soul who knows the complete truth; here, may be one who knows a section; and there, one who knows another section: but to the whole picture not one is initiated.

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The greater cats with golden eyes
Stare out between the bars.
Deserts are there, and the different skies,
And night with different stars.
They prowl the aromatic hill,
And mate as fiercely as they kill,
To roam, to live, to drink their fill;
But this beyond their wit know I:
Man loves a little, and for long shall die.

Vita Sackville-West

To hope for Paradise is to live in Paradise, a very different thing from actually getting there.

Vita Sackville-West