Elizabeth Bibesco
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"Elizabeth, Princess Bibesco" was an English writer and socialite. The daughter of a British Prime Minister and the wife of a Romanian aristocrat, she drew on her society connections in her work. She was active as writer between 1921 and 1940. A final posthumous collection of her stories, poems and aphorisms was published under the title Haven in 1951, with a preface by Elizabeth Bowen.File:Elizabeth Bibesco.jpg/thumb/right/Elizabeth Bibesco, circa 1919

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Seeing through is rarely seeing into.

We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck.

Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.

"It is never good dwelling on good-byes," she said, "it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.

It is sometimes the man who opens the door who is the last to enter the room.