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The true solitary... will feel that he is himself only when he is alone; when he is in company he will feel that he perjures himself, prostitutes himself to the exactions of others; he will feel that time spent in company is time lost; he will be conscious only of his impatience to get back to his true life.

Vita Sackville-West

A tomb of life, not death,
Life inward, true,
Where the world vanishes
And you are you.

Vita Sackville-West

A letter, by its arrival, defrauds us of a whole secret region of our existence, the only region indeed in which the true pleasure of life may be tasted, the region of imagination, creative and protean, the clouds and beautiful shapes of whose heaven are destroyed by the wind of reality.

Vita Sackville-West

It is quite true that you have had infinitely more influence on me intellectually than anyone, and for this alone I love you.

Vita Sackville-West