Elizabeth Bibesco quotes
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“Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.”
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“It is never good dwelling on good-byes ... it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.”
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“Entertaining is one method of avoiding people. It is very often the negation of hospitality.”
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“Seeing through is rarely seeing into.”
-- Elizabeth BibescoSource : Elizabeth Bibesco (1951). “Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms”
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“Endurance is frequently a form of indecision.”
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“You don't have to signal a social conscience by looking like a frump. Lace knickers won't hasten the holocaust, you can ban the bomb in a feather boa just as well as without, and a mild interest in the length of hemlines doesn't necessarily disqualify you from reading Das Kapital and agreeing with every word.”
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“To others we are not ourselves but a performer in their lives cast for a part we do not even know that we are playing.”
-- Elizabeth BibescoSource : Elizabeth Bibesco (1951). “Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms”
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“The image of ourselves in the minds of others is the picture of a stranger we shall never see.”
-- Elizabeth BibescoSource : Elizabeth Bibesco (1951). “Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms”
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“The Ten Commandments don't tell you what you ought to do: They only put ideas into your head.”
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“Are there any punishments in life but our joys turned against us?”
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“Temptations make one very censorious. If you are virtuous you condemn the wicked and if you are wicked, you condemn the virtuous.”
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“Free love is sometimes love but never freedom.”
-- Elizabeth BibescoSource : Elizabeth Bibesco (1951). “Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms”
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“Happiness is the moment when you cease to make an inventory of joys; it is a glow, a brightness - never a list ...”
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“Friendship is a difficult, dangerous job. It is also (though we rarely admit it) extremely exhausting.”
-- Elizabeth BibescoSource : Elizabeth Bibesco (1951). “Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms”
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“Reticences are as revealing as avowals.”
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“It is sometimes the man who opens the door who is the last to enter the room.”
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“What we buy belongs to us only when the price is forgotten.”
-- Elizabeth BibescoSource : "Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms". Book by Elizabeth Bibesco, 1951.
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“We learn nothing by being right.”
-- Elizabeth BibescoSource : Elizabeth Bibesco (1951). “Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms”
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“To some people the impossible is impossible.”
-- Elizabeth BibescoSource : Elizabeth Bibesco (1951). “Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms”
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“It is harder to cut our gains than our losses.”
-- Elizabeth BibescoSource : "Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms".
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“We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck.”
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“Irony is the hygiene of the mind.”
-- Elizabeth BibescoSource : Elizabeth Bibesco (1951). “Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms”
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“My soul has gained the freedom of the night”
-- Elizabeth BibescoSource : Elizabeth Bibesco (1951). “Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms”
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“Of what help is anyone who can only be approached with the right words?”
-- Elizabeth BibescoSource : Elizabeth Bibesco (1951). “Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms”
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“He is invariably in a hurry being in a hurry is one of the tributes he pays to life.”
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“Talk about the joys of the unexpected, can they compare with the joys of the expected, of finding everything delightfully and completely what you knew it was going to be?”
-- Elizabeth BibescoSource : Elizabeth Bibesco (1951). “Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms”
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“Influencing people is dangerous. Their acts and thoughts become your illegitimate children. You can't get away from them and Heaven knows what they mayn't grow up into.”
-- Elizabeth Bibesco
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