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"Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will."

"Whoever battles with monsters had better see that it does not turn him into a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
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"He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike."

"The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee."
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"The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer."

"Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them."
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Explore more 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."

"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."

"Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt."

"Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it."

"Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom."

"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."
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