Elizabeth Bibesco Quotes

• Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.

  Elizabeth Bibesco

  Inspirational, Positive, Thank You

  "Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms". Book by Elizabeth Bibesco, 1951.

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• The image of ourselves in the minds of others is the picture of a stranger we shall never see.

  Elizabeth Bibesco

  Mind, Stranger

  Elizabeth Bibesco (1951). “Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms”

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• We learn nothing by being right.

  Elizabeth Bibesco

  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.

  Elizabeth Bibesco

  Happiness, Joy, Inventory

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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 Bibesco

  Friendship, Casts, Performers

  Elizabeth Bibesco (1951). “Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms”

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• Seeing through is rarely seeing into.

  Elizabeth Bibesco

  Seeing

  Elizabeth Bibesco (1951). “Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms”

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• To some people the impossible is impossible.

  Elizabeth Bibesco

  People, Impossible

  Elizabeth Bibesco (1951). “Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms”

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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.

  Elizabeth Bibesco

  Love, Being Alone, Bye

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• Endurance is frequently a form of indecision.

  Elizabeth Bibesco

  Endurance, Indecision, Form

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• It is sometimes the man who opens the door who is the last to enter the room.

  Elizabeth Bibesco

  Men, Doors, Lasts

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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 Bibesco

  Joy, Unexpected, Compare

  Elizabeth Bibesco (1951). “Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms”

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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.

  Elizabeth Bibesco

  Temptation, Wicked, Virtuous

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• Irony is the hygiene of the mind.

  Elizabeth Bibesco

  Hygiene, Mind, Irony

  Elizabeth Bibesco (1951). “Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms”

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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.

  Elizabeth Bibesco

  Reading, Holocaust, Feminist

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• The Ten Commandments don't tell you what you ought to do: They only put ideas into your head.

  Elizabeth Bibesco

  Ideas, Religion, Ten Commandments

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• Of what help is anyone who can only be approached with the right words?

  Elizabeth Bibesco

  Helping, Right Words

  Elizabeth Bibesco (1951). “Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms”

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• My soul has gained the freedom of the night

  Elizabeth Bibesco

  Night, Soul, My Soul

  Elizabeth Bibesco (1951). “Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms”

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• Reticences are as revealing as avowals.

  Elizabeth Bibesco

  Silence, Revealing, Reticence

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• Perfect moments don't turn into half-hours.

  Elizabeth Bibesco

  Perfect, Half, Moments

  "Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms". Book by Elizabeth Bibesco, 1951.

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• Are there any punishments in life but our joys turned against us?

  Elizabeth Bibesco

  Punishment, Joy

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• Friendship is a difficult, dangerous job. It is also (though we rarely admit it) extremely exhausting.

  Elizabeth Bibesco

  Friendship, Jobs, Dangerous

  Elizabeth Bibesco (1951). “Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms”

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• It is harder to cut our gains than to cut our losses.

  Elizabeth Bibesco

  Cutting, Loss, Gains

  "Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms".

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• What we buy belongs to us only when the price is forgotten.

  Elizabeth Bibesco

  Forgotten

  "Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms". Book by Elizabeth Bibesco, 1951.

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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

  Children, Growing Up, People

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• We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck.

  Elizabeth Bibesco

  Hope, Luck, Certainty

  Elizabeth Bibesco (1951). “Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms”

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