Quotes by Elizabeth Bibesco

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Perfect moments don’t turn into half-hours.
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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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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.
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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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My soul has gained the freedom of the night.
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It is never good dwelling on good-byes," she said, "it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting
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Seeing through is rarely seeing into.
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The image of ourselves in the minds of others is the picture of a stranger we shall never see.
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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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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.
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