Quotes from Marthe Bibesco

One should make one's life a mosaic. Let the general design be good, the colors lively, and the materials diversified.

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.

history ... a sort of immortality turned upside down. Her life stretched backwards through ten centuries.

... love always betrays its intentions.

The birth of love is always accompanied by the idea of solitude. A single being appears, and the rest of the world grows empty.

there are no nationalities in heaven.