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There is something very independent about French balloons - you feel you couldn't make a pet of one.
- Elizabeth Bibesco
#Feel
#Independent
#Make
#Pet
#Something
Friendship is a difficult, dangerous job. It is also (though we rarely admit it) extremely exhausting.
- Elizabeth Bibesco
#Dangerous
#Difficult
#Friendship
#Job
It is better not to sit on the grass after thirty when sprawling at all is difficult, let alone sprawling gracefully.
- Elizabeth Bibesco
#Alone
#Better
#Difficult
#Grass
#Sit
It is sometimes the man who opens the door who is the last to enter the room.
- Elizabeth Bibesco
#Door
#Last
#Man
#Room
#Sometimes
Seeing through is rarely seeing into.
- Elizabeth Bibesco
#Rarely
#Seeing
#Through
Happiness is a light, an atmosphere, an illumination. It sets a personality. I always feel that it is a creation that is difficult for some and easy for others, but essentially an achievement, never an accident.
- Elizabeth Bibesco
#Difficult
#Happiness
#Light
#Personality
What an uncertain thing, marriage - what an elusive thing, happiness!
- Elizabeth Bibesco
#Elusive
#Happiness
#Marriage
#Uncertain
What you possess is not what you jingle in the pockets of your memory, but the imaginings with which you fill the spaces of the future.
- Elizabeth Bibesco
#Future
#Memory
#Pockets
#Which
#Your
I do not know at what moment in life, if ever, we realise that we are neither George Sands nor Juliets. Of course, if we are not beautiful, we recognise early that beauty is nothing.
- Elizabeth Bibesco
#Beautiful
#Beauty
#Life
#Moment
#Nothing
All my life, I have loved balloons - all balloons - the heavy English sort, immense and round, that have to be pushed about, and the gay, light, gas-filled French ones that soar into the air the moment you let go of them.
- Elizabeth Bibesco
#Gay
#Life
#Light
#Moment
#My Life
The only thing that matters is to have charm and expression. Then comes that horrible gnawing doubt of our own magnetism. Is it possible that, though we are not lovely, we are not irresistible either? That we will have to go through life belonging neither to the triumphantly beautiful nor to the triumphantly ugly?
- Elizabeth Bibesco
#Beautiful
#Doubt
#Life
#Possible
#Will
To some people, the impossible is impossible. One fine day, they wake up in the morning knowing that they will never hold the moon in their hands, and with the certainty, perfect peace descends on them.
- Elizabeth Bibesco
#Day
#Hands
#Impossible
#Moon
#Morning
#Peace
Isn't that what love means, to fill ordinary, commonplace, conventional things with magic and significance, not to need the moon and white scent-heavy flowers at night?
- Elizabeth Bibesco
#Love
#Magic
#Moon
#Night
#White
To others we are not ourselves but performers in their lives cast for a part we do not even know we are playing.
- Elizabeth Bibesco
#Cast
#Even
#Know
#Others
#Playing
Irony is the hygiene of the mind.
- Elizabeth Bibesco
#Hygiene
#Irony
#Mind
We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck.
- Elizabeth Bibesco
#Bring
#Call
#Certainty
#Hope
#Luck
Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.
- Elizabeth Bibesco
#Blessed
#Forgetting
#Remembering
#Wisdom
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