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“Heaven preserve me from littleness and pleasantness and smoothness. Give me great glaring vices, and great glaring virtues, but preserve me from the neat little neutral ambiguities. Be wicked, be brave, be drunk, be reckless, be dissolute, be despotic, be a suffragette, be anything you like, but for pity's sake be it to the top of your bent. Live fully, live passionately, live disastrously. Let's live, you and I, as none have ever lived before.”

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Violet Trefusis
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

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