#violet trefusis

[petaltexturedskies]

Be wicked, be brave, be drunk, be reckless, be dissolute, be despotic, be an anarchist, be a religious fanatic, be a suffragette, be anything you like, but for pity’s sake be it to the top of your bent—live—live fully, live passionately, live disastrously if necessary. Live the gamut of human experiences, build, destroy, build up again! Live, let’s live, you and I— let’s live as none ever lived before, let’s explore and investigate, let’s tread fearlessly where even the most intrepid have faltered and held back!

Violet Trefusis in a letter to Vita Sackville-West written c. October 1918, featured in Violet to Vita: The Letters of Violet Trefusis to Vita Sackville-West

[ars-solitudine]

Dammi grandi vizi abbaglianti e grandi virtù scintillanti, ma salvami dalle piccole ambiguità rosa pallido o viola tenue che si interpongono.

[hangsawoman]

violet trefusis in a letter to vita sackville-west, august 1920

[shadowland]

Janet McTeer as Vita Sackville-West and Cathryn Harrison as Violet Keppel in Portrait of a Marriage (BBC, 1990)

[marlenchen]

Alice Keppel with her daughter Violet c. 1899

[derangedrhythms]

. . . My days are consumed by this impotent longing for you, and my nights are riddled with insufferable dreams . . . I want you. I want you hungrily, frenziedly, passionately. I am starving for you, if you must know it. Not only the physical you, but your fellowship, your sympathy, the innumerable points of view we share. I can’t exist without you, you are my affinity, the intellectual 'pendent' to me, my twin spirit.

Violet Trefusis, Violet to Vita: The Letters of Violet Trefusis to Vita Sackville-West

[lillyli-74]

Flowers were her natural allies, like trees, fruit and animals, everything that grows, sways in the wind, bites and hides. She was one of them, on their side.

~Violet Trefusis

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