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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

Topics: About Air All My Life Balloons English French Gay Go Heavy Immense Let Go Life Light Loved Moment My Life Pushed Round Soar Sort Them You

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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.

~Elizabeth Bibesco

Topics: Artists Beat Essential Felt Hearts Interest Lived Me Misery Only Pity Poignant Unison Whose World You

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

~Elizabeth Bibesco

Topics: Bring Call Certainty Hope Luck Often

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Seeing through is rarely seeing into.

~Elizabeth Bibesco

Topics: Rarely Seeing Through

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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

Topics: Cast Even Know Lives Others Ourselves Part Performers Playing

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It is better not to sit on the grass after thirty when sprawling at all is difficult, let alone sprawling gracefully.

~Elizabeth Bibesco

Topics: After Alone Better Difficult Gracefully Grass Sit Thirty

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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

Topics: Beautiful Belonging Charm Doubt Either Expression Gnawing Go Horrible Irresistible Life Lovely Magnetism Matters Neither Nor Only Our Own Possible The Only Thing Then Thing Though Through Ugly Will

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

~Elizabeth Bibesco

Topics: Admit Also Dangerous Difficult Exhausting Extremely Friendship Job Rarely Though

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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.

~Elizabeth Bibesco

Topics: After Condition Health High Itself Least Like Live Look Matter Nothing Physical Thinking Will World

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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?

~Elizabeth Bibesco

Topics: Anything Chapter Done End Even Events Ever Everything Go Living Paragraph Sentence Spite Subsequent

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Poet

Born: February 26th, 1897

Died: April 7th, 1945

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