Violet Trefusis Quotes

#1. His neglected heart, forsaken, isolated, was more lonely than the ace of hearts in the middle of a playing card.

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#2. Across my life only one work will be written: "waste" _ waste of love, waste of talent, waste of enterprise.

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#3. I don't like museums; there's nothing to buy.

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#4. Do you think that love has to be requited to be genuine? On the contrary, it thrives on indifference.

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#5. The same word passed through three minds, simultaneously, philosophical, fatalistic, the eternal refuge of the Italian: Pazienza ...

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#6. 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.

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#7. How I adore you and want you. You can't know how much ... I love belonging to you
I glory in it, that you alone have bent me to your will, shattered my self-possession, robbed me of my mystery, and made me yours, so that away from you I am nothing but a useless puppet, an empty husk.

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