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Dolly Wilde @dollywilde.bsky.social · 15h

I want to thank you for the bouquet, the pleasure is indescribable—like all enchantment & there is something sad about being unable to tell the secret of pleasure.

Dolly Wilde @dollywilde.bsky.social · 19h

Sitting in the DARK of the stairs while you take your bath! (Is this the ‘home-life’ I crave for??)

Dolly Wilde @dollywilde.bsky.social · 23h

Darling, you know I mean all I say otherwise why should I have bothered all this time? (I'm lazy & selfish!)

Dolly Wilde @dollywilde.bsky.social · 1d

That illicit dreaming done under the very nose of everybody—that apparent attention that sublime inattention—has a certain strange excitement that the unchartered dreaming of solitude lacks. All is perverse.

Dolly Wilde @dollywilde.bsky.social · 1d

A slovenly, impossible atmosphere with the constant worry of someone incapacitated through drink driving the car, arriving home hours late etc. undermined what little discipline a ‘Wilde’ possesses!!

Dolly Wilde @dollywilde.bsky.social · 1d

You seem as far away as a remote star—but the longest spears of your light strike into me with deadly precision. What should I be if I were near all those golden rays—that splintery fire?

Dolly Wilde @dollywilde.bsky.social · 1d

Once again one realizes that people don’t know how to love & only think of themselves.

Dolly Wilde @dollywilde.bsky.social · 1d

Well, darling,—don't you hear my sighing breath?—this is what I really think!!

Dolly Wilde @dollywilde.bsky.social · 1d

You compel my imagination, make turmoil of my thoughts & every night I miss your lover’s attentions—what else is love?

Dolly Wilde @dollywilde.bsky.social · 2d

But indeed Englishwomen appear to me ravishing after Paris. They are not just the chic voluptuous kind one passes in the street there—but mysterious, lovely creatures with uncertain exciting qualities, floating like Botticelli angels in their summer frocks.

Dolly Wilde @dollywilde.bsky.social · 2d

Imagine—Virginia Woolf was lunching but postponed at the last moment. I was so curious to see her, because of her books and Romaine’s talk of her.

Dolly Wilde @dollywilde.bsky.social · 2d

Do you miss me at all? The best of lovers have something of the accountant in them and seek a slight return.

Dolly Wilde @dollywilde.bsky.social · 2d

and with all my knowledge I possessed you as deeply and as actually as if you had been there . . . that blinding lightening—like possession too swift, too acutely felt

Dolly Wilde @dollywilde.bsky.social · 2d

I look very pretty but I feel 85