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The half-hour of crowded anticipation, how fully it pays for the sterile hour that follows!

~Elizabeth Bibesco

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A man who is available for lunch, has no wife, is interested in everything, and talks well is socially invaluable.

~Elizabeth Bibesco

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Passion is no respecter of persons. She hardly seems to select her victims.

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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?

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What is it one yearns for? It is to be able to do a thing for the first time again. And that is impossible.

~Elizabeth Bibesco

Topics: Able Again First First Time Impossible Thing Time

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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.

~Elizabeth Bibesco

Topics: Alive Die Ever Flowers Important Know Life More Much People Pour Sooner System Take Than Trouble Whole Why Wrong You

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Poet

Born: February 26th, 1897

Died: April 7th, 1945

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