Violet Trefusis Quote

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.


Author: Philippe Jullian, The other woman: A life of Violet Trefusis, including previously unpublished correspondence with Vita Sackville-West, published in (1976), pg.74


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...

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...

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...

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...