"Seeing through is rarely seeing into."

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Source : Elizabeth Bibesco (1951). “Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms”

Elizabeth Bibesco

“You are what you are seen to be.”
“I don't think I'll ever feel as famous or as popular as I felt when I was a 17-year-old soccer player in Modle. Only about 20,000 people live there and 12,000 of them come to every game. Running onto the pitch each week was just the most fantastic feeling. Nothing can beat that.”
“I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What's real is for my children and the people I live with.”
“When you make your mark in the world, watch out for the envious with erasers.”
“No human endeavour can ever be wholly good... it must always have a cost.”
“The Creation speaks a universal language, independent of human speech or human language, multiplied and various as they be. It is an ever-existing original, which every man can read. It cannot be forged; it cannot be counterfeited; it cannot be lost; it cannot be altered; it cannot be suppressed. It does not depend upon the will of man whether it shall be published or not; it publishes itself from one end of the earth to the other. It preaches to all nations and to all worlds; and this Word of God reveals to man all that is necessary for man to know of God.”
“It is one of the greatest economic errors to put any limitation upon production.We have not the power to produce more than there is a potential to consume.”
“America's the one country in the world where anybody who comes here does better than where they came from.”

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