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All Quotes by author - Elizabeth Bibesco
" 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. "
Gay
My Life
Moment
" A man who is available for lunch, has no wife, is interested in everything, and talks well is socially invaluable. "
Well
Wife
Who
" Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting. "
Wisdom
Remembering
Forgetting
" Can one end anything? A chapter, a paragraph, a sentence even? Doesn't everything one has ever done go on living in spite of subsequent events? "
Living
Done
Chapter
" Friendship is a difficult, dangerous job. It is also (though we rarely admit it) extremely exhausting. "
Admit
Job
Friendship
" 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. "
Light
Easy
Happiness
" 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. "
Beautiful
Moment
Life
" Irony is the hygiene of the mind. "
Mind
Hygiene
Irony
" 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? "
Moon
Need
Night
" It is better not to sit on the grass after thirty when sprawling at all is difficult, let alone sprawling gracefully. "
Thirty
Alone
Grass
" It is sometimes the man who opens the door who is the last to enter the room. "
Who
Door
Last
" Oh, youth is a wicked, cruel thing - eating miracles with its breakfast and not knowing they are not porridge. "
Youth
Eating
Breakfast
" Only the artists interest me whose hearts beat in unison with the poignant misery of the world. If you have not felt that, you have not lived. Pity is essential. "
You
Hearts
Lived
" Passion is no respecter of persons. She hardly seems to select her victims. "
Seems
Passion
Her
" Seeing through is rarely seeing into. "
Rarely
Seeing
Through
" The half-hour of crowded anticipation, how fully it pays for the sterile hour that follows! "
Crowded
How
Hour
" 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? "
Ugly
Beautiful
Belonging
" There is nothing in the world like health. Live cleanly, and the high thinking will look after itself - or at least won't matter. Physical condition - there's nothing like it. "
Live
Health
World
" There is something very independent about French balloons - you feel you couldn't make a pet of one. "
You
Pet
Balloons
" To others we are not ourselves but performers in their lives cast for a part we do not even know we are playing. "
Cast
Playing
Even
" 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. "
People
Day
Morning
" We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck. "
Call
Bring
Certainty
" What an uncertain thing, marriage - what an elusive thing, happiness! "
Elusive
Uncertain
Happiness
" What is it one yearns for? It is to be able to do a thing for the first time again. And that is impossible. "
First
Impossible
First Time
" 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. "
Memory
Pockets
You
" Why don't people take the trouble to let you know that they are alive? It is so much more important. The whole system is wrong. No sooner do I die, than all the flowers I have ever longed for in life pour in. "
Die
Flowers
Know
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