Marthe Bibesco Quotes

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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.

Marthe Bibesco

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

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 sure to say, 'Do it again!

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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.

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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.

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

Marthe Bibesco