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

— Violet Trefusis

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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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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

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