history ... a sort of immortality turned upside down. Her life stretched backwards through ten centuries.
One should make one's life a mosaic. Let the general design be good, the colors lively, and the materials diversified. - Marthe Bibesco
One should make one's life a mosaic. Let the general design be good, the colors lively, and the materials diversified.
- Marthe Bibesco
Words express only the feelings we know already. - Marthe Bibesco
Words express only the feelings we know already.
The affairs of the royal house form a subject of conversation for those who, as a rule, would have no conversation. - Marthe Bibesco
The affairs of the royal house form a subject of conversation for those who, as a rule, would have no conversation.
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,… - Marthe Bibesco
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,…
those two wholesome defects of the French people, malice and curiosity, both of which are essential to its greatness. - Marthe Bibesco
those two wholesome defects of the French people, malice and curiosity, both of which are essential to its greatness.
... love always betrays its intentions. - Marthe Bibesco
... love always betrays its intentions.
collections are amusing only in the making; afterwards they are like sporting prints without the sport. The sons of collectors inherit only the corps… - Marthe Bibesco
collections are amusing only in the making; afterwards they are like sporting prints without the sport. The sons of collectors inherit only the corps…
The birth of love is always accompanied by the idea of solitude. A single being appears, and the rest of the world grows empty. - Marthe Bibesco
The birth of love is always accompanied by the idea of solitude. A single being appears, and the rest of the world grows empty.
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 … - Marthe Bibesco
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 …
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