A biography for Elizabeth Bibescohasn’t been written yet.
“Seeing through is rarely seeing into.”
“I do not know at what moment in life, if ever, we realise that we are neither George Sands nor Juliets. Of course, if we are not beautiful, we recognise early that beauty is nothing.”
“Can one end anything? A chapter, a paragraph, a sentence even? Doesn't everything one has ever done go on living in spite of subsequent events?”
“To others we are not ourselves but performers in their lives cast for a part we do not even know we are playing.”
“What an uncertain thing, marriage - what an elusive thing, happiness!”
“We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck.”
“It is better not to sit on the grass after thirty when sprawling at all is difficult, let alone sprawling gracefully.”