Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan’t make you...... Quote by "Vita Sackville-West"

Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan’t make you love me any the more by giving myself away like this.
— Vita Sackville-West The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf

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Other Quotes by "Vita Sackville-West"

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

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Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.
— Vita Sackville-West

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There are no signposts in the sea.
— Vita Sackville-West

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Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.
— Vita Sackville-West

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I believe that the main thing in beginning a novel is to feel, not that you can write it, but that it exists on the far side of a gulf, which words can't cross; that its to be pulled through only in a breathless anguish. [VW]
— Vita Sackville-West The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf

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