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  • Endurance is frequently a form of indecision.

  • To some people the impossible is impossible.

    Elizabeth Bibesco (1951). “Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms”
  • Are there any punishments in life but our joys turned against us?

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

    Elizabeth Bibesco (1951). “Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms”
  • Of what help is anyone who can only be approached with the right words?

    Elizabeth Bibesco (1951). “Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms”
  • What we buy belongs to us only when the price is forgotten.

    "Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms". Book by Elizabeth Bibesco, 1951.
  • 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 (1951). “Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms”
  • My soul has gained the freedom of the night

    Elizabeth Bibesco (1951). “Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms”
  • It is sometimes the man who opens the door who is the last to enter the room.

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

    "Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms".
  • Perfect moments don't turn into half-hours.

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

  • Reticences are as revealing as avowals.

  • Free love is sometimes love but never freedom.

    Elizabeth Bibesco (1951). “Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms”
  • Happiness is the moment when you cease to make an inventory of joys; it is a glow, a brightness - never a list.

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

    "Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms". Book by Elizabeth Bibesco, 1951.
  • Entertaining is one method of avoiding people. It is very often the negation of hospitality.

  • 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 (1951). “Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms”
  • Friendship is a difficult, dangerous job. It is also (though we rarely admit it) extremely exhausting.

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

  • Temptations make one very censorious. If you are virtuous you condemn the wicked and if you are wicked, you condemn the virtuous.

  • Irony is the hygiene of the mind.

    Elizabeth Bibesco (1951). “Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms”
  • Seeing through is rarely seeing into.

    Elizabeth Bibesco (1951). “Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms”
  • The Ten Commandments don't tell you what you ought to do: They only put ideas into your head.

  • It is never good dwelling on good-byes ... it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.

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

    Elizabeth Bibesco (1951). “Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms”
  • He is invariably in a hurry being in a hurry is one of the tributes he pays to life.

    Elizabeth Bibesco (1922). “Balloons”
  • We learn nothing by being right.

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

  • Born: February 26, 1897
  • Died: April 7, 1945
  • Occupation: Writer