I suppose that ninety-nine people out of a hundred, if they knew all about us (her & Virginia), would call us wicked and degenerate. And yet I know with absolute certainty that there are not ninety-nine people out of a hundred less wicked and degenerate than we are. I don’t want to boast, but we are alive, aren’t we? And our two lives, outside and inside, are rich lives - not little meagre repetitions of meagre cerebral habits… -Vita Sackville West.