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A review by hogsqueal
All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville-West
5.0
4.5*
this was such a beautiful, thought-provoking read. I love love loved the prose so! much! lady slane literally invented what it means to ponder ones melancholy solitude, ones relationship to the(ir) world, to ponder every nook and cranny of life & death & womanhood...cannot stop thinking about her...
"...just too wise to let himself float away on a hopeless love...just unwise enough to remain remotely faithful for fifty years." (ouch hehe)
"all he asked was to be let alone; he had no desire to interfere in the workings of the world; he simply wanted to live withdrawn into his chosen world, absorbed in his possessions and their beauty. that was his form of spirituality, his form of contemplation. thus the loneliness of his death held no pathos..."
this was such a beautiful, thought-provoking read. I love love loved the prose so! much! lady slane literally invented what it means to ponder ones melancholy solitude, ones relationship to the(ir) world, to ponder every nook and cranny of life & death & womanhood...cannot stop thinking about her...
"...just too wise to let himself float away on a hopeless love...just unwise enough to remain remotely faithful for fifty years." (ouch hehe)
"all he asked was to be let alone; he had no desire to interfere in the workings of the world; he simply wanted to live withdrawn into his chosen world, absorbed in his possessions and their beauty. that was his form of spirituality, his form of contemplation. thus the loneliness of his death held no pathos..."