Of course I have no right whatsoever to write down the truth about my life involving as it naturally does the lives of so many other people, but I do so urged by a necessity of truth-telling, because there is no living soul who knows the complete truth; here, may be one who knows a section; and there, one who knows another section: but to the whole picture not one is initiated.


Autobiographical sketch (23 July 1920), published in Portrait of a Marriage : Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson (1998), p. 3

Vita Sackville-West Quotes

Of course I have no right whatsoever to write down the truth about my life involving as it naturally does the lives of so many other people, but I do ...

Of course I have no right whatsoever to write down the truth about my life involving as it naturally does the lives of so many other people, but I do ...

Of course I have no right whatsoever to write down the truth about my life involving as it naturally does the lives of so many other people, but I do ...

Of course I have no right whatsoever to write down the truth about my life involving as it naturally does the lives of so many other people, but I do ...