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“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.”

Book:Violet to Vita: the letters of Violet Trefusis to Vita Sackville-West, 1910-21

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Violet to Vita: the letters of Violet Trefusis to Vita Sackville-West, 1910-21

This book features a series of letters exchanged between Violet Trefusis and Vita Sackville-West, spanning from 1910 to 1921. The correspondence delves into their personal lives, artistic inspirations, and the evolving dynamics of their friendship. The letters offer a candid glimpse into the lives of two influential figures in early 20th-century literature and society. more

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Violet Trefusis

Violet Trefusis was a British writer renowned for her romantic novels and personal correspondence. A contemporary of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West, Trefusis's writing delved into themes of love, desire, and social class, characterized by vivid and intimate prose. She was born on June 6, 1894, and passed away on February 29, 1972. more

“Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.”

People Ifs Love May Doe Speak Wish Air Fool All Things Ridiculous Confusion Time Love Bladder

Book:The Hemingway Collection

Source: The Hemingway Collection

“The music business was not safe, but it was FUN. It was like falling in love with a woman you know is bad for you, but you love every minute with her, anyway.”

Knows Love Fall Fun Music Minutes Safe Falling In Love Music Business

Author:Lionel Richie

“Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?”

Love Firsts Love Is Sight Deliberate Greatest Love

Book:Lust's dominion; or, The lascivious queen. Hero and Leander. Certain of Ovid's elegies. Epigrams and elegies by John Davies and Christopher Marlowe. The first book of Lucan. Ovid's Elegies

Source: Lust's dominion; or, The lascivious queen. Hero and Leander. Certain of Ovid's elegies. Epigrams and elegies by John Davies and Christopher Marlowe. The first book of Lucan. Ovid's Elegies

“Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus: one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him.”