Vita Sackville-West Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• I suppose the pleasure of the country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live. That is a truism when said, but anything but a truism when daily observed. Nothing shows up the difference between the thing said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Life, Country, Determination

  Vita Sackville-West (2015). “Vita Sackville-West: Selected Writings”, Macmillan

• 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, Hong Kong

• Travel is a private pleasure, since it consists entirely of things felt and things seen.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Travel, Pleasure, Felt

• I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Country, Determination, Lying

  Vita Sackville-West (2015). “Vita Sackville-West: Selected Writings”, Macmillan

• 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

  Beautiful, Reality, Clouds

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