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Elizabeth Bibesco
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“To some people the impossible is impossible.”
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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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“Friendship is a difficult, dangerous job. It is also (though we rarely admit it) extremely exhausting.”
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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 competely what you knew it was going to be?”
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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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“Reticences are as revealing as avowals.”
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“Influencing people ... is so 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.”
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“Entertaining is one method of avoiding people. It is very often the negation of hospitality.”
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“Such a perfect lady! She never raises her voice, she never fidgets, she never contradicts, she never gets untidy.”
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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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“A hush had settled like a moth on the day.”
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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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“It is never any good dwelling on good-byes. It is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.”
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“Why do other people rob you with their understanding, stealing your discoveries and your guesses, invading the special domain of your insight?”
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“Ned was sowing his wild oats. 'Poetry,' she whispered, filling the word with night-club implications.”
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“Are there any punishments in life but our joys turned against us?”
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“Seeing through is rarely seeing into.”
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“Free love is sometimes love but never freedom.”
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“Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.”
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“Endurance is frequently a form of indecision.”
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“We learn nothing by being right.”
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“The austere principles of tact tell the tongue to keep away from the aching thought.”
Elizabeth Bibesco, English-born Rumanian poet, writer
(1897 - 1945)
Full name: Princess Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco.