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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.
Vita Sackville-West
Soul
Growth
Mind
Writer
Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.
Vita Sackville-West
Experience
Difference
Nothing
Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.
Vita Sackville-West
Age
Men
Desperation
State
I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong.
Vita Sackville-West
Men
Strength
Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.
Vita Sackville-West
Fear
Authority
Doubt
Reason
Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel.
Vita Sackville-West
Choice
Problems
What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.
Vita Sackville-West
Will
Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.
Vita Sackville-West
Men
Women
Idea
Freedom
Hate
Youth
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.
Vita Sackville-West
Travel
Want
There are no signposts in the sea.
Vita Sackville-West
Sea