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Violet Trefusis Quotes

1894–1972 England

Violet Trefusis (née Keppel) (6 June 1894 – 29 February 1972) was an English and French writer. Trefusis is best known for her relationship with novelist Vita Sackville-West.

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Across my life only one word will be written: "waste" - waste of love, waste of talent, waste of enterprise.

The following evening John left with Lady Shorne for the south of France, without so much as a word to me.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

In each human being there is an emergency exit: that is, the cult of self under a multitude of manifestations, which means that when an obsession becomes too violent, you can escape, vanish with a snicker.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Violet Trefusis (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.