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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
" "It is quite true that you have had infinitely more influence on me intellectually than anyone, and for this alone I love you.
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About Vita Sackville-West
Victoria Mary Sackville-West, The Hon Lady Nicolson, CH (9 March 1892 – 2 June 1962), most famous as Vita Sackville-West, was an English poet, novelist and writer on gardening. She is sometimes considered part of the Bloomsbury group, and well known as the inspiration for Virginia Woolf's novel Orlando: A Biography.
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Victoria Mary Sackville-West
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Lady Victoria Sackville-West
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Victoria Mary Sackville-West, Lady Nicolson
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Victoria Sackville-West
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V. Sackville-West
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Victoria (Vita) Sackville-West
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I wish I had a photograph of you. (Has mine ever turned up?) It is a torment not being able to visualise when one wants to. I can visualise you as a matter of fact surprisingly well, – but always as you stood on your door-step that last evening, when the lamps were lit and the trees misty, and I drove away.
I am not a simpleton', he said, 'nor am I a childish old man. I dislike childishness and all such rubbish. I feel nothing but impatience with the people who pretend that the world is other than it is. The world, Lady Slane, is pitiably horrible. It is horrible because it is based upon competitive struggle - and really one does not know whether to call the basis of that struggle a convention or a necessity. Is it some extraordinary delusion, or is it a law of life?
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