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Romanian-French author and poet (b. 1886), Birth: 28-1-1886, Death: 28-11-1973
1.
One should make one's life a mosaic. Let the general design be good, the colors lively, and the materials diversified.
Marthe Bibesco

2.
there are no nationalities in heaven.
Marthe Bibesco

3.
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

4.
that sunlight of the dead which is called literature.
Marthe Bibesco

5.
Words express only the feelings we know already.
Marthe Bibesco

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6.
marriage was a calamity, but it was not an occupation.
Marthe Bibesco

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!
Marthe Bibesco

8.
... love always betrays its intentions.
Marthe Bibesco

Quote Topics by Marthe Bibesco: Feelings Heaven Gossip Immortality Greatness History People Occupation Betray Literature Solitude Soul Ideas Tired Color Passion Nationality Royal Equality House Upside Down Two Calamity Love Always Sunlight Intention Art Love Is Knows Likes And Dislikes
9.
those two wholesome defects of the French people, malice and curiosity, both of which are essential to its greatness.
Marthe Bibesco

10.
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

11.
history ... a sort of immortality turned upside down. Her life stretched backwards through ten centuries.
Marthe Bibesco

12.
The affairs of the royal house form a subject of conversation for those who, as a rule, would have no conversation.
Marthe Bibesco

13.
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