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 au besoin.
Violet Trefusis to Vita Sackville-West, October 1918