The half-hour of crowded anticipation, how fully it pays for the sterile hour that follows! Elizabeth Bibesco More Quotes by Elizabeth Bibesco More Quotes From Elizabeth Bibesco What you possess is not what you jingle in the pockets of your memory, but the imaginings with which you fill the spaces of the future. Elizabeth Bibesco your memory you future A man who is available for lunch, has no wife, is interested in everything, and talks well is socially invaluable. Elizabeth Bibesco everything man lunch wife Passion is no respecter of persons. She hardly seems to select her victims. Elizabeth Bibesco her she passion seems Only the artists interest me whose hearts beat in unison with the poignant misery of the world. If you have not felt that, you have not lived. Pity is essential. Elizabeth Bibesco beat me you world What is it one yearns for? It is to be able to do a thing for the first time again. And that is impossible. Elizabeth Bibesco first first-time impossible time Oh, youth is a wicked, cruel thing - eating miracles with its breakfast and not knowing they are not porridge. Elizabeth Bibesco not-knowing youth eating breakfast Why don't people take the trouble to let you know that they are alive? It is so much more important. The whole system is wrong. No sooner do I die, than all the flowers I have ever longed for in life pour in. Elizabeth Bibesco die you life people