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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?


Elizabeth Bibesco

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ELIZABETH GILBERT One thing I do know about intimacy is that there are certain natural laws which govern the sexual ex...
ELIZABETH GILBERT It all goes away. Eventually, everything goes away.
ELIZABETH GILBERT The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than stayin...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.
ELIZABETH GILBERT There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in.
ELIZABETH GILBERT In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need o...
ELIZABETH GILBERT I think I deserve something beautiful.
ELIZABETH GILBERT The Bhagavad Gita--that ancient Indian Yogic text--says that it is better to live your own destiny i...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
ELIZABETH GILBERT To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced
life.
ELIZABETH GILBERT When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a m...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, an...
ELIZABETH GILBERT I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay wit...
ELIZABETH GILBERT This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.
ELIZABETH GILBERT Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure.Ours is an entertainment seeking-nation, bu...
ELIZABETH GILBERT There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdictio...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then they ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Intimacies between women go backwards, beginning with revelations and ending up in small talk withou...
ELIZABETH BOWEN Postmodernism refuses to privilege any one perspective, and recognizes only difference, never inequa...
ELIZABETH WILSON People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other...
ELIZABETH GASKELL I've always admitted that I'm ruled by my passions.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR Do they know they're old, these two who are my father and my mother whose fire from which I came, ha...
ELIZABETH JENNINGS It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity ...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR The good are so harsh to the clever, the clever so rude to the good!
ELIZABETH WORDSWORTH He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentili...
ELIZABETH GASKELL