Marthe Bibesco Quotes

#1. Those two wholesome defects of the French people, malice and curiosity, both of which are essential to its greatness.

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#2. Marriage was a calamity, but it was not an occupation.

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#3. There are no nationalities in heaven.

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#4. 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.

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

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#6. 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.

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#7. 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!

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#8. Love always betrays its intentions.

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#9. That sunlight of the dead which is called literature.

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#10. Words express only the feelings we know already.

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

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#12. History ... a sort of immortality turned upside down. Her life stretched backwards through ten centuries.

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#13. 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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