Marthe Bibesco Quotes

• One should make one's life a mosaic. Let the general design be good, the colors lively, and the materials diversified.

  Marthe Bibesco

  Life, Color, Design

  Marthe Bibesco (1928). “Catherine-Paris”

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• there are no nationalities in heaven.

  Marthe Bibesco

  Equality, Heaven, Nationality

  Marthe Bibesco (1928). “Catherine-Paris”

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• Words express only the feelings we know already.

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  Feelings, Knows

  Marthe Bibesco (1928). “Catherine-Paris”

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• The arts are good and providential in that they allow the soul to imitate the movements of love, and to feel love without its being returned - which, perhaps, is the only way of feeling it permanently.

  Marthe Bibesco

  Art, Soul, Feelings

  Marthe Bibesco (1928). “Catherine-Paris”

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• that sunlight of the dead which is called literature.

  Marthe Bibesco

  Literature, Sunlight

  Marthe Bibesco (1928). “Catherine-Paris”

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• marriage was a calamity, but it was not an occupation.

  Marthe Bibesco

  Occupation, Calamity

  Marthe Bibesco (1928). “Catherine-Paris”

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• history ... a sort of immortality turned upside down. Her life stretched backwards through ten centuries.

  Marthe Bibesco

  History, Upside Down, Immortality

  Marthe Bibesco (1928). “Catherine-Paris”

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• The birth of love is always accompanied by the idea of solitude. A single being appears, and the rest of the world grows empty.

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  Love Is, Ideas, Solitude

  Marthe Bibesco (1928). “Catherine-Paris”

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• Children never grow tired; their likes and dislikes are constant; let them laugh at something once and they laugh always; do what you will, they are sure to say, 'Do it again!

  Marthe Bibesco

  Children, Tired, Likes And Dislikes

  Marthe Bibesco (1928). “Catherine-Paris”

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• ... love always betrays its intentions.

  Marthe Bibesco

  Intention, Betray, Love Always

  Marthe Bibesco (1928). “Catherine-Paris”

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• those two wholesome defects of the French people, malice and curiosity, both of which are essential to its greatness.

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  Greatness, Two, People

  Marthe Bibesco (1928). “Catherine-Paris”

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• The affairs of the royal house form a subject of conversation for those who, as a rule, would have no conversation.

  Marthe Bibesco

  Gossip, House, Royal

  Marthe Bibesco (1930). “Some royalties and a prime minister: portraits from life”

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• collections are amusing only in the making; afterwards they are like sporting prints without the sport. The sons of collectors inherit only the corpse of their fathers' satisfied passion.

  Marthe Bibesco

  Sports, Father, Passion

  Marthe Bibesco (1928). “Catherine-Paris”

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