The second act of Tristan is no fit fare for a young man unhappily in love. - Vita Sackville-West

Si era mundana, lo era a escala grandiosa. Si era interesada, pujaba por las mayores fortunas. Si amaba, era en los lugares más encumbrados. Si reconocía ambición en sí, era por el poder más alto. Si sufría, era en el plano de la tragedia.

I don't want to get landed in an affair which might get beyond my control before I knew where I was.
[...] But darling, Virginia is not the sort of person one thinks of in that way. There is something incongruous and almost indecent in the idea. I have gone to bed with her (twice), but that's all. Now you know all about it, and I hope I haven't shocked you [...]

And what have I to give my friends in the last resort? An awkwardness, a shyness, and a scrap, No thing that's truly me, a bootless waste, A waste of myself and them, for my life is mine And theirs presumably theirs, and cannot touch.