Vita Sackville-West Quotes
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'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.'
'Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it'
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Knole, Kent
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internal link Knole - Birthplace and once the largest house in England
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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become - W H Auden
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